Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a
Belgian
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painter
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born in
Brussels
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. He studied under
Jean-François Portaels
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from 1859 at the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
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in Brussels, and in 1869 won the
Prix de Rome
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.
[Bénédite, Léonce (1910). ''Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings''. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 290.] In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the
Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
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in Brussels.
Agneessens later built up quite a career in
Saint-Petersburg
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, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder.
His works include ''Standing Male Nude'' (1870), ''Ladies by a Piano'', and ''Bloemenstilleven''. He died in 1885 in
Uccle
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.
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Honours
* 1881: Knight in the
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[Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881]
Sources
* P. & V. Berko, 1981: ''Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875'', p. 11 Knokke
* P. Piron, 1999: ''De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw''. Art in Belgium
* ''Biographie Nationale'', Koninklijke Academie van België, deel XXX
References
1842 births
1885 deaths
Artists from Brussels
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels alumni
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