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Nicaise De Keyser
Nicaise de Keyser (alternative first names: Nicaas, Nikaas of Nicasius; 26 August 1813, Zandvliet – 17 July 1887, Antwerp) was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting. Biography He received his painting tuition at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts under Jozef Jacobs and Mattheus Ignatius van Bree. After 1835 he made many travels including to England and Scotland, Paris and Italy.D. Cardyn-Oomen. "De Keyser, Nicaise." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 March 2014 He married the genre painter Isabella Telghuys on 6 October 1840. In 1846, he was elected to the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baugniet
Charles-Louis Baugniet (; 27 February 1814 – 5 July 1886) was a Belgian painter, lithographer and aquarelle, aquarellist. His name remains attached to the lithographing of portraits of famous and lesser-known figures from Belgium, France and England. They are politicians, senior officials, prominent clergy, both from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Church, industrialists, professors, artists, musicians, actors, and people from the vaudeville world. Biography He was born in Brussels and attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels during 1827–29, where he studied under Joseph Paelinck and Florent Joseph Marie Willems, Florent Willems. His first attempts lithography date from 1827, and his reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine ''L'Artiste'' in 1833. He collaborated with from 1835 until 1842 in producing a series of portraits of the Belgian House of Representatives. Louis Huard finished only 6 portraits, Baugniet doing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfried Guffens
Egide Godfried Guffens (22 July 1823 – 11 July 1901) was a Belgian painter. He is best known for his monumental religious and historical murals. , with links to several other sources. Life and work He was born in . When he was only fifteen, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under . He later took a trip to Italy to see the works of |
Netherlands Institute For Art History
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in documentation, archives, and books on Western art from the late Middle Ages until modern times. All of this is open to the public, and much of it has been digitized and is available on their website. The main goal of the bureau is to collect, categorize, and make art research available, most notably in the field of Dutch Masters. Via the available databases, the visitor can gain insight into archival evidence on the lives of many artists of past centuries. The library owns approximately 450,000 titles, of which ca. 150,000 are auction catalogs. There are ca. 3,000 magazines, of which 600 are currently running subscriptions. Though most of the text is in Dutch, the standard record format includes a link to library entries and images of known work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Verlat
Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat (25 November 182423 October 1890) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter.Max Rooses, ''Oude en nieuwe kunst'' pp. 45-99 He also created Orientalist works, scenes, including a number of s, religious compositions and still lifes. He was a professor of drawing and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Verhas
Frans Verhas or Franz Verhas (Dendermonde, 1827 – Schaerbeek, 1897)Franz Verhas at the was a Belgian painter. He is known for his portraits and genre scenes of women and children set in luxurious bourgeois homes. His elaborate salon interiors are characterised by their rich abundance and the display of a wide range of textures, such as tapestries, satins, furs, marbles and metals. Frans Verhas also painted animals, history paintings and still lifes.''Belgian artists: la cote des artistes belges'', Arts Antiques Auctions nv, 2004 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Verhas
Jan Verhas or Jan Frans Verhas (9 January 1834 – 31 October 1896) was a Belgian painter of the Realist school. He was known for his portraits and genre paintings often depicting children of the Belgian bourgeoisie. Jan Verhas also painted history paintings, coastal landscapes, beach scenes, seascapes and the occasional still life of flowers. He was an important representative of the Realist movement in Belgium. Life Jan Verhas was born in Dendermonde as the son of Emmanuel Verhas. His father was a painter who for twenty years was a teacher at the local Academy and also served as a director of that Academy. Jan received his initial art training from his father as did his older brother Frans). Just like Jan, his brother Frans became a successful artist. Verhas studied initially at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown Dendermonde and from 1853 onwards at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Van Hamme
Alexis Van Hamme (12 July 1818, Brussels - 9 October 1875, Brussels) was a Belgian painter; known primarily for historical genre scenes. Life and work He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), with Nicaise De Keyser and Henri Leys; both of whom had a decisive influence on his approach to painting. His works consist mainly of interior genre scenes, rendered in great detail. Most of them feature 17th-century settings, in the style of the old Dutch masters; especially those known as the fijnschilders. The physical details of his rooms and furnishings owe much to Gerrit Dou. One of his more specifically historical works, "The Entry of Albert and Isabella into Brussels in 1599", was purchased by King Leopold I. His works are still commonly featured at auctions, in Europe and the United States. They have been known to fetch prices up to €40,000 (app. 47,000 US Dollars). Most of his works are privately owned, but some may be seen at the Koninklijke Musea voor Schon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Turck
Eliza Turck (1832–1910), was an English portrait (including miniatures), genre, bird and landscape painter, illustrator and writer. Life and work Turck was born in Islington in London, where she showed an early aptitude for art and received lessons from her mother, Anne Louisa Tielkens (b. 1799 London), who was a talented amateur artist. Her father was Herman Jochim Christian Turck, a banker (b. 1792 Bailiwick of Guernsey). Eliza was educated initially in Germany and on her return to England, in 1848, studied for 6 months at Cary's School of Art in London. Afterwards, she took lessons in oil painting from William Gale, and, in 1852, entered the figure class of the Female School of Art in Gower Street for a further year. She studied for 14 months, from 1859 to 1860, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Swerts
Jan Swerts (25 December 1820, Antwerp - 11 August 1879, Marienbad) was a Belgium, Belgian painter of historical subjects and portraits who worked on many publicly funded commissions. He played a major role in introducing German Romanticism, Romantic historical painting into Belgium. His fresco's using oil paint heralded a revival of a colouristic style derived from Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens and Flemish Baroque painting combined with historical and psychological realism. Life Training Jan Swerts was a student of the leading Antwerp history painter Nicaise De Keyser at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts.Biographical details at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Here he met Godfried Guffens, another pupil of De Keyser, who became a close friend. The two friends visited Paris together in 1848 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Portielje
Edward Antoon Portielje (8 February 1861, Antwerp – 18 December 1949, Antwerp) was a Belgian Genre art, genre painter. Biography He was born to the painter Jan Portielje and his wife Eulalie (née Lemaire, 1828–1903). His older brother, Gerard Portielje, Gerard, was also a genre painter. His first art lessons came from his father. Then he attended the and, from 1873, took after-school classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Edward Dujardin. From 1877 to 1881, he was a full-time student at the academy under the tutelage of Polydore Beaufaux, Charles Verlat and Nicaise de Keyser. He was married twice, first to Jeanne Marie Cochet and then, in 1888, to Rosa Hermans, with whom he had a son. During World War I he lived in Brussels, returning to Antwerp in 1919. Genre scenes were his speciality, with an occasional portrait or seascape. Much of his inspiration came from the fishing communities in Zeeland. Many of his works are a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Pauwels
Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels ( �pʌu̯əls 13 April 1830, Ekeren – 26 March 1904, Dresden) was a Belgian history painter who lived and worked in Germany. Life From 1842 to 1850, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), under Gustave Wappers and Nicaise De Keyser, where he became an outstanding colorist. In 1852 he won the Prix de Rome (Belgium) for his painting ''Coriolanus at Rome'' and was able to spend four years studying in Italy. From 1862 to 1872, he was the Professor of History Painting at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. Leon Pohle, Max Liebermann and Carl Rodeck were among his students there. This period was especially productive for him and he completed seven large wall panels at the Wartburg, depicting the life of Martin Luther. After a short stay in Belgium, he returned to Germany, where he became a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His students there included Ludwig von Hofmann, Osmar Schindler, Paul Thumann and Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Ooms
Karel Ooms (27 January 1845 — 18 March 1900) was a Belgian painter of portraits, genre paintings and history paintings. He was also known for his Orientalist scenes and Oriental landscapes. Life Karel Ooms was born in Dessel as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel.Objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
