Basile De Loose (17 December 1809 – 24 October 1885) was a Belgian painter.
He was born in
Zele
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East Flanders
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United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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, on 17 December 1809, to Johannes Josephus de Loose.
Also his father was a painter. Twelve paintings by his father hang in the church of Zele, where also one painting by Basile De Loose is located (''The Way of the Cross''). He was trained in
Antwerp
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Paris
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. De Loose was trained by his father,
and was also a pupil of
Mattheus Ignatius van Bree
Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (Antwerp, 1773 – Antwerp, 1839) was a Belgian painter. He was one of the founders of the historical school of painting in Belgium and played an important role as a teacher in the development of 19th-century Belgian a ...
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He died in ]Brussels
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on 24 October 1885.[
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Gallery
File:Basil de Loose - De muziekles.jpg, ''The Music Lesson'', oil on panel, 1854
File:Basile de Loose - Wafels bakken.jpg, ''Making Waffles'', oil on canvas, 1853
File:Basile de Loose - Het gelukkige gezin.jpg, ''The Happy Family'', oil on canvas, 1856
File:Basile de LooseThe Sewing Lesson.jpg, ''The Sewing Lesson'', oil on canvas, 1858
File:Loose-Basile-Tuning-the-Guitar.jpg, ''Tuning the Guitar'', oil on panel, 1863
File:Basile de Loose - Dorpsfeest.jpg, ''Village Fair'', oil on canvas, 1838
References
Further reading
* Immerzeel, J.; Immerzeel, C.H., ''De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van het begin der vijftiende eeuw tot heden'', Amsterdam: Van Kesteren, 1842-1843
* Bénézit, Emmanuel, ''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers'', Paris: Librairie Grund, 1966
* Eemans, Marc, ''Biografische woordenboek der Belgische kunstenaars van 1830 tot 1970'', vol. 1, p. 144, Brussel: Arto, 1979
* Piron, Paul, ''De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw'',vol. 1, p. 371, Brussel: Art in Belgium, 1999
* Berko, Patrick; Berko, Viviane, ''Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875'', Brussel: Laconti, 1981
* Flippo, Willem G., ''Lexicon of the Belgian romantic painters'', Antwerpen: International art press, 1981
* I. De Wilde, 'De Loose'. Een 19-eeuws schildergeslacht 1769-1885', Zele 1985
* Cat. tent. Retrospective de Loose, Sint-Niklaas (Stedelijk Museum )1985
* M. van Heteren and J. de Meere, Frederik Marinus Kruseman 1816-1882. Painter of pleasing Landscapes, Schiedam 1998, p. 47, 48, 107
External links
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1809 births
1885 deaths
20th-century Belgian painters
People from Zele