Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe (5 April 1868 – 15 November 1939) was a

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painter who mostly worked in watercolors. Gilsoul-Hoppe was born in

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as the daughter of the engraver Edouard Hoppe. She trained in Bisschoffsheim school in Brussels where in 1894 she married the painter Victor Gilsoul. She is known for interiors, landscapes and cityscapes, and her painting ''Interior hallway'' was included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

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Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

Gallery

File:Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe - interior hallway.jpg, ''Interior hallway'' File:Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe 004.JPG, ''Bridge'' File:Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe002.jpg, ''Children at the village shop''

Galerie Lyceum

She began a Brussels gallery in 1911 together with

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and some friends. The gallery was called the Galerie Lyceum. Other founding members were Alice Ronner, Emma Ronner,

Anna Boch Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. Artistic style Boch partici ...

, Louise Danse,

Marie Danse Marie Danse or Marie Destrée-Danse (February 19, 1866 – May 31, 1942) was a Belgium, Belgian painter-etcher and the wife of the art historian and politician Jules Destrée. Life and work Danse was born in Brussels as the daughter of the pain ...

, and Juliette Wytsman.

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1868 births 1939 deaths Painters from Brussels Belgian women painters 19th-century Belgian painters 20th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian women artists 20th-century Belgian women artists Emigrants from the German Empire Immigrants to Belgium 20th-century women painters {{Belgium-painter-stub