Afsnee is a village in the Belgian province of
East Flanders
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. It is part of the urban area of the province's capital city
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
.
It is situated at the banks of the river
Lys.
Maurice and
Anna De Weert
Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgium, Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminism (Impressionism), Luminist style.
Life
Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen ...
bought a farm at Afsnee in 1895 beside the Lys which had belonged to a Dominican Monastery. Anna would paint there.
References
Sub-municipalities of Ghent
Populated places in East Flanders
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