Eugène Smits
Illustration — A Child with a Doll Eugène Smits (22 May 1826, Antwerp - 4 December 1912, Brussels) was a Belgian portrait painter.
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Eugène Smits
Eugène Smits · Public domain
- Born
- 1826 · Antwerp.
- Died
- 1912 · Brussels.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- portrait
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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Eugène Smits is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), M Leuven, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Print Collection.
He studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with François-Joseph Navez. From 1851 to 1852, he lived in Paris, where he made the professional acquaintance of Jean-François Millet, Eugène Isabey, and the brothers Joseph and Alfred Stevens. He returned to Paris in 1855, to take part in the Exposition Universelle. From 1861 to 1864, he lived in Italy, where he created his largest canvas: "Ein Sonntagsnachmittag in Pincio" (A Sunday Afternoon in Pincio, 1862). In 1868, he was one of the co-founders of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts. In 1902, he was elected a member of his alma mater, the Académie royale. He also wrote a collection of memories and reflections, Les pensées d’Eugène Smits, which was published posthumously in 1913, with illustrations by Fernand Khnopff.
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Eugène Smits, a watercolourist, genre artist and painter, was born in 1826 in Antwerp and died in 1912 in Brussels. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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- 1.Les rues de Schaerbeek de J.A. Dekoster. Édité par l'asbl AMAS (les Amis de la Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek) – 1981 (page 105)
- 2.Moniteur. Nominations. Moniteur belge. 135. 18 mai 1881. 13 juin 2024.
- 3.Saisons, Bruxelles
- 4.Paysage boisé, Anvers
- 5.Autoportrait, Bruxelles
- 6.Sibeau, Bruxelles
- 7.Venise, Bruxelles
- 8.Bonheur et malheur, Anvers
- 9.Irlandaise, Gand
- 10.Flore, Gand
- 11.Autoportrait, Cerca/Trova
- 12.Femme au collier, Catalogue Ader
- 13.Reading a letter, Invaluable
- 14.[inconnu]. Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut archéologique du Luxembourg. 1996. 1-2. 10. Arlon.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Catalogue inventaire de le peinture moderne. 1984.
- Eugène De Seyn, Dictionnaire biographique des sciences, des lettres et des arts en Belgique, Bruxelles, tome second, 1936
- Paul Piron, [[Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et XXe siècles |Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des ]], Ohain-Lasne, 2003
- Dictionnaire des peintres belges
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