Verbrugghe Charles

Paris – Montmartre, Charles Verbrugghe, Bruges 1877 – 1974 Paris, Signed

1877 – 1974

Town Gate of Bruges – Kruispoort Poupaert Lionel Bruges 1900 – 1989 Belgian Painter Bruges School Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: Image size 60 x 71 cm Biography: Poupaert Lionel was born on September 27, 1900 in Bruges. His father was a goldsmith. In 1931 he got married and went to live in the Biezenstraat. He died on February 12, 1989. He was a painter, restorer of paintings and copyist of Flemish Primitives. In 1912 he entered the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts with director Flori Van Acker as his teacher and famed artist. In 1926 the Municipal Council of Bruges appointed him as a teacher at the Bruges Academy. He would remain in this position until 1966, the year he retired. Poupaert turned out to be a solid painter with high qualities. He painted numerous Bruges townscapes and also made portraits of important Bruges figures. In the period 1952-1956, he painted two portraits of guardians and superiors of the convent of Our Lady of the Pottery. In 1955 he collaborated with Jules Fonteyne on the murals of the Church of Christ the King. In 1961 he copied for the second time Memling’s triptych “The Adoration of the Magi” by order of Bruges Naval College who gave it as a gift to the King and Queen of Belgium...

Canal View of Bruges – The Beguinage Van Middel Maurice Bruges 1886 – 1952 Belgian Painter Bruges School Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: Image size 40 x 50 cm, frame size 52,50 x 62 cm Biography: Van Middel Maurice ( Van Middel Maurits) was born in 1886 in Bruges. He was a Belgian painter and draughtsman. He painted Bruges townscapes, marines, portraits and figures among others lace-workers. He found his inspiration in the Bruges Beguinage. Van Middel studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts under master teacher and artist Edmond van Hove (1851 – 1913) and was a classmate of Constant Permeke...

Boats at the Nieuwpoort Harbour Clesse Louis Brussels 1889 – 1961 Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom right, verso signed and titled "Barques de por...

Along the River Gilsoul Victor Brussels 1867 – 1943 Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom left Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: Image size 40 x 28,50 cm, frame size 52 x 41 cm Biography: Gilsoul Victor was born in Brussels on September 10, in 1867. He was a Belgian impressionist painter of landscapes, marines, harbour scenes, architectures, interiors, city and canal views, portraits and figures. He was also a watercolourist. Gilsoul studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with the famed master teachers and artists François Courtens (1854 - 1895) and Louis Artan (1837 - 1890). In 1882 he won his first prize at the Academy and in 1884 debuted at the Brussels Salon. He studied also at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, where he won a prize (1885-1890). Gilsoul  was member of the group ‘Voorwaerts’ in 1891. He was awarded a silver medal at the Paris World Fair in 1900. In the same year, King Leopold II commissioned several compositions for his yacht “Alberta” and knighted him to the Order of King of the Belgians...

Wonderful Austrian landscape with Church on a mountain . Hermann Reisz Austrian (1865-1920)Reisz was a well-regarded 19th century Austrian landscape...

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