The Quiet Ambition of a Breton Painter In the salt-misted air of Brest, a life began that would eventually find its way to the grand studios of Paris. Born in 1854, Charles Francisque Raub was a man of the sea and the soil, a son of Finistère who carried the spirit of northern Brittany into the heart of the French capital. His early years were shaped by the light of his home, yet his hunger for the craft led him away from the coast and…