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Michel Thomas Antonius Van Cuyck (19 August 1797, Ostend - 10 May 1875, Ostend) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist and lithographer.
Michel Thomas Antonius Van Cuyck (19 August 1797, Ostend - 10 May 1875, Ostend) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist and lithographer.
Biography
From 1811 to 1817, he studied at the . After graduating, he set up a studio in Oostende, but was forced to supplement his income by painting houses. In 1820, he andFrançois-Antoine Bossuet
François-Antoine Bossuet (21 August 1798 Ypres – 28 September 1889 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) was a painter and draughtsman of the Belgian school.
Life and work
Bossuet is known for his depictions of the landscapes, cities and monuments of Spain a ...
co-founded the "School voor Teeken- en Bouwkunde" (School for drawing and architecture). They had several students who became well known, including , , François Musin
François-Etienne Musin (4 October 1820, Ostend - 24 October 1888, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) was a Belgian painter who specialized in seascapes and scenes of coastal landscapes, rivers and harbours.James Ensor. The latter, however, was not impressed by what he described as the "deceptive sponge and drawing technique of this dull, boring and stillborn business".
In 1827, a blue whale washed up on the beach near Ostend. Van Cuyck made a series of paintings, depicting it on the beach, and drawings of the dissection process, which accompanied an exhibition of the whale's skeleton. It was purchased by a local philanthropist named Herman Kessels who toured with it and Van Cuyck's drawings for almost four decades. Since 1865, it has been on display at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
During the years following independence, King Leopold I transformed Ostend into a sort of Royal Residence, which developed into a fashionable seaside resort. Van Cuyck was one of the first to depict the tourism and the bathing culture there. His beach scenes and seascapes are now some of his most familiar works. He also painted Flemish fairs and landscapes, primarily in Walloon Brabant, in
"Vlaamse schilderkunst en de zee Vlaamse schilderkunst in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw"
by Norbert Hostyn. From ''Vlaanderen'', #49 @ DBNL
"The Travels of the Oostende Whale Skeleton"
by Nicholas Redman @ Cambridge University Press {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuyck, Michel Van 1797 births 1875 deaths Belgian landscape painters Belgian watercolourists Belgian lithographers Artists from Ostend Dutch painters
Biedermeier
The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
style. His portrayal of Queen Louise on her deathbed was reproduced as a lithograph.
He was the first in a long line of painters, which included his sons, Edouard-Johannes Van Cuyck (1828-1893) and Michel Thomas Séraphin Van Cuyck (1822-1890), as well as his grandsons, Michel-Julien Van Cuyck (1861-1930), (1870-1956) and Paul-Edouard-Alphonse Van Cuyck (1882-?).
Sources
* Norbert Hostyn, "Michel Van Cuyck", in : ''Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis'' (Acts of the Society for History), CXVI, 1979 * '' Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek'', Vol.12, Brussel, 1987 * ''Lexicon van Westvlaamse beeldende kunstenaars'', Vereniging van Westvlaamse Schrijvers, 1992 * Norbert Hostyn, ''Beeldend Oostende'', Van de Wiele, 1993External links
"Vlaamse schilderkunst en de zee Vlaamse schilderkunst in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw"
by Norbert Hostyn. From ''Vlaanderen'', #49 @ DBNL
"The Travels of the Oostende Whale Skeleton"
by Nicholas Redman @ Cambridge University Press {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuyck, Michel Van 1797 births 1875 deaths Belgian landscape painters Belgian watercolourists Belgian lithographers Artists from Ostend Dutch painters