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Gerard Jozef Portielje (6 February 1856 – 18 May 1929) was a Belgian painter of
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Gerard Jozef Portielje (6 February 1856 – 18 May 1929) was a Belgian painter of genre
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scenes.Peter Pappot Art Gallery/ref>
Life
He was born inAntwerp
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, the son of painter Jan Portielje. His younger brother, Edward
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History
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, was also a painter. He attended a trade school until 1870, then entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. His teachers included Polydore Beaufaux
Polydore Beaufaux (30 November 1829 – 7 May 1905) was a Belgian painter. He favored Biblical scenes, portraits and Genre art, genre pieces.Jozef Van Lerius and Edward Dujardin.
In 1887, he took a study trip to MacConnal-Mason Gallery
/ref> He died in 1929 in Remich.
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and Alsace
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. In 1898, he visited England and spent some time at Lowestoft
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. When World War 1 broke out, he returned to England, via Ostend
Ostend ( nl, Oostende, ; french: link=no, Ostende ; german: link=no, Ostende ; vls, Ostende) is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerk ...
and spent the war years in Worcester Park
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, Surrey
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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
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and Oxford in 1915. He and his family returned to Belgium in 1919.
From 1898 to 1914 he was an art teacher at the church school on Lange Leemstraat in Antwerp. He took up that position again in 1919 and remained until 1925. He was also a professor of drawing at the Antwerp Academy./ref> He died in 1929 in Remich.
Work
Portielje specialized in genre scenes in a variety of social settings, generally filled with people who might be described as "characters". They are often humorous (occasionally suggestive), and there is usually a sense that something is about to happen. The clothing and accessories point to the early nineteenth century, rather than his own times. He is particularly noted for his attention to fine detail. His paintings were usually priced according to the number of people they contained. He worked in close cooperation with many well-known art dealers in New York and London. One of those dealers, , often had him produce paintings in collaboration with other artists. He was commissioned to create posters and brochures for the 300th Anniversary ofAnthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh c ...
's birth and designed advertisements for "Elixir d'Anvers", an herbal liqueur
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with purported medicinal properties.
References
Further reading
*I. Bruynooghe, ''Het oeuvre van Jan, Gerard en Edward Portielje'', self-published, Roeselare, 2001. *Berko, P. & V.: ''Dictionnaire des peintres belges nées entre 1750 et 1875'', Editions Laconti, Bruxelles, 1981External links
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