Afsnee is a village in the Belgian province of

East Flanders , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = Province of Belgium , image_flag = Flag of Oost-Vlaanderen.svg , flag_size = , image_shield = Wapen van O ...

. It is part of the urban area of the province's capital city

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

. It is situated at the banks of the river Lys. Maurice and

Anna De Weert Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgium, Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminism (Impressionism), Luminist style. Life Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen ...

bought a farm at Afsnee in 1895 beside the Lys which had belonged to a Dominican Monastery. Anna would paint there.

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Sub-municipalities of Ghent Populated places in East Flanders {{EastFlanders-geo-stub