Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842,
Brussels
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– 20 August 1885,
Uccle
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) was a
Belgian painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
born in Brussels. He studied under
Jean-François Portaels
Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts ...
from 1859 at the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1869 won the
Prix de Rome.
[Bénédite, Léonce (1910). ''Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings''. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 290.] In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the
Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was an organization formed in 1868 by Belgian artists to react against academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom. Based in Brussels, the society was active un ...
in Brussels.
Agneessens later built up quite a career in
Saint-Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder.
His works include ''Standing Male Nude'' (1870, sold 16 November 1994), ''Ladies by a Piano'' (sold 15 October 1998) and ''Bloemenstilleven'' (sold 7 December 2002).
Honours
* 1881: Knight in the
Order of Leopold Order of Leopold may refer to:
* Order of Leopold (Austria), founded in 1808 by emperor Francis I of Austria and discontinued in 1918
* Order of Leopold (Belgium), founded in 1832 by king Leopold I of Belgium
* Order of Leopold II, founded in Congo ...
.
[Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881]
Sources
* P. & V. Berko, 1981: ''Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875'', p. 11 Knokke
* P. Piron, 1999: ''De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw''. Art in Belgium
* ''Biographie Nationale'', Koninklijke Academie van België, deel XXX
References
1842 births
1885 deaths
Artists from Brussels
19th-century Belgian painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni
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