Édouard Delvaux (;

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

, c. 1806 –

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, 1862) was a Belgian Romantic painter. The grandson of the sculptor

Laurent Delvaux Laurent Delvaux (1696, in Ghent – 24 February 1778, in Nivelles) was a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the cou ...

and apprentice of the painter

Henri Van Assche Henri Van Assche (30 August 1774, Brussels - 10 April 1841, Brussels) was a Belgian painter; primarily of landscapes. He was especially well-known for his depictions of waterfalls and water mills. Some of his scenes contain animals painted by Ba ...

, his work mainly consisted of bucolic rural scenes from his many trips to France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. He won silver medal at the 1836 Brussels exhibition and was director of the École de dessin at Spa.

Sources

*Raymond Delvaux, Flor De Smedt, Felix Meurisse & Frans Jozef van Droogenbroeck, ''Het Kasteel van Walfergem, van Hof te Huseghem over Speelgoed van de familie t'Kint tot Landhuis van de familie Delvaux'', Asse, Koninklijke Heemkring Ascania, Asse, 2007.

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Works and life of Édouard Delvaux
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delvaux, Edouard 1800s births 1862 deaths Artists from Brussels 19th-century Belgian painters Belgian male painters 19th-century Belgian male artists