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Louis-Pierre Verwee or Louis Pierre Verwée ( Kortrijk, 19 March 1807 – Brussels, November 1877) was a Belgian painter known for his rural landscapes with cattle and winter landscapes.Louis-Pierre Verwee, ''Boerderij met landvolk en dieren''
at Kunsthandel Simonis & Buunk He is the principal representative of the Romantic school in Belgian landscape painting characterised by a return to nature.Attributed to Louis-Pierre Verwee, ''Landscape with Cattle''
at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum on the site of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
at Kunsthandel Simonis & Buunk He is the principal representative of the Romantic school in Belgian landscape painting characterised by a return to nature.Attributed to Louis-Pierre Verwee, ''Landscape with Cattle''
at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum on the site of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
Life
Louis-Pierre Verwee was born in Kortrijk. He abandoned school prematurely to become a student at the Academy of Fine Arts of Kortrijk. His instructors there included prominent landscape and animal painterJan Baptiste de Jonghe
Jan Baptiste de Jonghe or Jean-Baptiste de Jonghe (Kortrijk, 8 January 1785 – Schaerbeek, 14 October 1844) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman, etcher and lithographer. He is known for his Romantic landscapes with people, herds and ruins.
(1785–1844). He later studied with the landscape and animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Louis Pierre Verwée and Eugène Verboeckhoven ''Eisvergnügen mit Schlittschuhläufern und einem Eisfischer''
at Kunsthandel Simonis & Buunk Later in his life he traveled through Germany, France and the Netherlands and stayed in London from 1867 to 1868. He was a friend of Constant Troyon and Gustave Courbet. He married Claire van der Smissen, with whom he had one daughter and three sons, two of whom became painters:
Louis-Pierre Verwee, ''Shepherd with Animals''
at Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery on the site of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
Verwee's paintings of forests and rivers are in the stereotypical, romantic way that can be found in the landscapes of the painters
at Kunsthandel Simonis & Buunk Later in his life he traveled through Germany, France and the Netherlands and stayed in London from 1867 to 1868. He was a friend of Constant Troyon and Gustave Courbet. He married Claire van der Smissen, with whom he had one daughter and three sons, two of whom became painters:
Alfred Verwee
Alfred Jacques Verwee (23 April 1838, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 15 September 1895, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian painter known for his depictions of animals, landscapes and seascapes.
Life
His father was the painter Louis-Pierre Verwee and his br ...
became an internationally renowned animal painter and Louis-Charles Verwee
Louis-Charles Verwée or Louis Charles Verwee (3 July 1832 – 9 July 1882) was a Belgian painter known for his interior scenes, genre scenes and glamorous society portraits. His genre scenes show romantic intrigues and young society ladies.
was a genre and portrait painter.
Work
Louis-Pierre Verwee was a landscape and animal painter. His early works are similar to those of his master Verboeckhoven, to the extent that it is often difficult to distinguish their work. Verboeckhoven sometimes painted the figures and animals in Verwee's pictures.at Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery on the site of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
Verwee's paintings of forests and rivers are in the stereotypical, romantic way that can be found in the landscapes of the painters Andreas Schelfhout
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, known for his landscape paintings.
Schelfhout belongs to the Romantic movement. His Dutch winter scenes and frozen canals with skaters were already famous during hi ...
(1787–1870), Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), Frans Keelhoff (1820–1893) and Johann Bernard Klombeck
Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning " Yahweh is Gracio ...
(1815–1893).
In the later part of his career he strived for innovation, but from 1837 onwards he became stuck in ever-changing winter landscapes. This type of winter landscapes had become popular due to the work of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Andreas Schelfhout. Louis-Pierre Verwee depicted these landscapes with low-hanging, heavy snow clouds over wintry land and waterways and dotted with figures. He used light blue and metallic gray in his color palette in an effort to suggest the intimate, moody aspect of such landscapes. In some of these paintings Florent Willems
Florent Willems or Florent Willems van Edeghem (8 January 1823 – 23 October 1905)Florent Willems
at the and Verboeckhoven painted the figures. He made a number of
at the and Verboeckhoven painted the figures. He made a number of
lithograph
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
s after works of Eugène Verboeckhoven.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Verwee, Louis-Pierre 1807 births 1877 deaths 19th-century Belgian painters Belgian male painters 19th-century Belgian male artists Belgian portrait painters Belgian landscape painters Flemish landscape painters People from Kortrijk Animal artists