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Gerard Portielje
Gerard Jozef Portielje (6 February 1856 – 18 May 1929) was a Belgian painter of Genre art, genre scenes. Life He was born in Antwerp, the son of painter Jan Portielje. His younger brother, Edward Portielje, Edward, was also a painter. He attended a trade school until 1870, then entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. His teachers included Polydore Beaufaux, Jozef Van Lerius and Edward Dujardin. In 1887, he took a study trip to Vosges and Alsace. In 1898, he visited England and spent some time at Lowestoft. When World War 1 broke out, he returned to England, via Ostend and spent the war years in Worcester Park, Surrey where he produced many landscapes and portrayals of country houses. For some unknown reason, he did not participate in exhibitions of Belgian artists in exile that were given at Kingston upon Thames and Oxford in 1915. He and his family returned to Belgium in 1919. From 1898 to 1914 he was an art teacher at the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,Statistics Belgium; ''Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'' (Excel file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, . Retrieved 1 November 2017. it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
