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Jean Pierre François Lamorinière
Jean Pierre François Lamorinière, Jan Pieter Frans Lamorinière or François Lamorinière (20 April 1828, in Antwerp – 3 January 1911, in Antwerp)Jean Pierre François Lamorinière at the was a Belgian landscape painter best known for his realistic depictions of landscapes in his home country.Jean Pierre François Lamorinière ''The Pools, near Antwerp'' at the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings His work is situated between the previous generat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Verlat
Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat (25 November 182423 October 1890) was a Belgium, Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), Visual arts education, art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter.Max Rooses, ''Oude en nieuwe kunst'' pp. 45-99 He also created Orientalism, Orientalist works, genre art, genre scenes, including a number of singeries, religious compositions and still lifes. He was a professor of drawing and director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Antwerp Academy when Vincent van Gogh spent a brief period as a student at the Academy in 1886. The two men got into arguments about van Gogh's unconventional style of drawing.Steven Naifeh, Gregory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Leopold (Belgium)
The Order of Leopold ( nl, Leopoldsorde, french: Ordre de Léopold, ) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood. It is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and is named in honour of its founder, King Leopold I. It consists of a military, a maritime and a civil division. The maritime division is only awarded to personnel of the merchant navy, and the military division to military personnel. The decoration was established on 11 July 1832 and is awarded by Royal order. History When Belgium became independent of the Netherlands, there was an urgent need to create a national honour system that could serve as a diplomatic gift. The national congress provided this exclusive right to the sovereign, this military honour system was written in Article 76. The first King of the Belgians, Leopold I of Belgium, used his constitutional right in a larger way than foreseen: not only military merit, but every service in honour of the Kingdom. Two years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Victor Schaefels
Lucas Victor Schaefels or Lucas Schaefels (Antwerp, 5 April 1824 – Antwerp, 17 September 1885) was a Belgians, Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver known for his still lifes, which for the most part were flower and hunting pieces. He worked in a meticulous style reminiscent of the 17th century Flemish Baroque.SCHAEFELS, Lucas (1824 - 1885), Painter, engraver in: Benezit Dictionary of ArtistsLucas Victor Schaefels at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Life Lucas Victor Schaefels trained with his father Hendrik Raphael Schaefels, a decorative painter working in a Neo-Classical ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Frans Schaefels
Hendrik Frans Schaefels or Henri François Schaefels, also known as Rik Schaefels (Antwerp, 2 December 1827 – Antwerp, 9 June 1904), was a Belgian Romantic painter, draughtsman and engraver known for his seascapes, cityscapes, genre paintings, landscapes with figures and history paintings. He worked in the Romantic style popular in Belgium in the mid nineteenth century and was highly esteemed in Europe for his representations of historic naval battles.SCHAEFELS, Hendrik Frans (1827 - 1904), Painter, engraver , in: Benezit Dictionary of ArtistsHenri François Schaefels at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Rooses
Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège to study Philosophy and Literature. From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the ''Koninklijk Athenaeum'' (Royal Athenaeum) in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated with a degree in Literature from the University of Liège. In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur, and in 1866 in Ghent. Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Bibliography * ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schildersschole'' (1873) – a history of the Antwerp school of painting * ''Levensschets van Jan Frans Willems'' (1874) – a biography of Jan Frans Willems * ''Schetsenboek'' (1877) – sketchbook * ''Over de Alpen'' (1880) * ''Christophe Plantin'' (1882) * ''Correspondance de Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Ooms
Karel Ooms (27 January 1845 - 18 March 1900) was a Belgian painter of portraits, genre paintings and history paintings. He was also known for his Orientalist scenes and Oriental landscapes. Life Karel Ooms was born in Dessel as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel.Object v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Linnig The Younger
Willem Linnig the Younger (20 August 1842, in Antwerp – 3 September 1890, in Antwerp)Willem Linnig (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History was a Belgian painter and engraver who is best known for his history and genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes. He taught for some time at the Fine Arts School of Weimar.''Willem Linnig Senior ' at Schoonselhof N. Hostyn, "LINNIG, Egide, marineschilder en scheepsportrettist", in ''Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Linnig The Elder
Willem Linnig the Elder or Willem Linnig Senior (7 August 1819, in Antwerp – 8 August 1885, in Antwerp)Willem Linnig (I) at the was a painter and engraver who is best known for his history and genre scenes and interiors painted in a style which is reminiscent of 17th century Flemish and Dutch genre painting. He taught for some time at the Fine Arts School of Weimar. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egide François Leemans
Egide François Leemans or Egide Leemans (Antwerp, 28 April 1839 – Antwerp, 2 January 1883) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver.LEEMANS, Egide François (1839 - 1883), Engraver in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists He is best known for his paintings and prints of waterscapes, harbours and seascapes in the evening or at night. His work represents a break with the tradition of grand themes in Belgian marine art in favour of a realist representation of nature.Pol de Mont, 'De schilderkunst in België van 1830 tot 1921', The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, p. 160-161, 165-168 Life and work Leemans studied at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Farasyn
Edgard Pierre Jozef Farasyn (also spelled Farasijn; 14 August 1858, in Antwerp – 22 March 1938, in Antwerp) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver and etcher who specialized in seascapes, landscapes, genre scenes and interior portraits. In his later life, he became interested in depicting fishermen. Life and work He received his artistic training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), where he studied under Nicaise de Keyser. In 1885, he became a teacher at the Academy. Six years later, he was a founding member of the secessionist group ''De XIII'' and was also active in ''Weest U Zelve'' (roughly, ''Be Yourself''), a group devoted to promoting Flemish art. He initially focused on painting children, but switched to plein air painting after becoming a teacher. He mostly worked in and around Antwerp, but also went to Mol and the Kempen region and occasionally ventured into Zeeland. His early works are mostly done in dark, sombre colors, but his canvas lightened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florent Crabeels
Florent Nicolas Crabeels (5 December 1829, Antwerp – 7 June 1896, Antwerp) was a Belgian genre and landscape painter. Life and work He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, with Jacob Jacobs and Egide Linnig. At first, he painted scenes from villages and small town markets. Later, he turned to landscapes from the Kempen region, and became an ardent supporter of painting en plein aire. Much of his work was done in the artists' colony at Wechelderzande, together with , Jacques Rosseels (1828-1912), and Adriaan Jozef Heymans; a member of the of landscape painting. In 1886, he was one of the founding members of "L’Art Indépendant". He became a Neo-Impressionist Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, '' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the beginn ... and returned to painting genre scenes around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Abry
Léon-Eugène-Auguste Abry (1857-1905) was a Belgian painter who specialized in military scenes Dictionnaire des Peintres Belges from BALaT, database of the Life and work He was the son of a General in the Belgian Army. The family moved frequently, from post to post. His father died when he was fourteen, and he had some difficulty adjusting from military life to ordinary bourgeois society.
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