Jean De la Hoese

Jean De la Hoese studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels. Training under Auguste De Keyser is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brussels. Work by Jean De la Hoese is recorded in the collections of Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Jean De la Hoese's father worked as a graphic designer at the Militair Kartografisch Instituut. Jean De la Hoese was a pupil of Auguste De Keyser (1859) and, from 1859 until 1870, of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. His early works were very academic, but later on he evolved to a freer style. • Illustration — Jean De la Hoese, The Readers This painter of aristocratic female beauty was a master portrait painter who depicted several masterpieces, including the portrait of his father which is exhibited in the Brussels Royal Museum of Fine Arts. De la Hoese painted landscapes and genre scenes with elegant ladies in interiors (at the beginning of his career with an emphasis on the representation of fabrics, in the line of Florent Willems). Most of his portraits are presentations of important members of Belgium's higher social classes and highly educated. They express an exceptional unconventional liveliness. The Belgian Government commissioned him to paint the posthumously portrait of Queen Louise-Marie for the Palace of the Nation, the seat of the Belgian Federal Parliament. Jean De la Hoese lived at 66, rue Potagère/Warmoesstraat in Brussels (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode).

• 1888: Paris, Exposition Universelle • 1894: Munich, Glaspalast, World Exposition • 1907: Paris, Salon d'automne (Portrait of Mrs A. Desenfans, Portrait of Mr Léonce Evrard) • 1908: Berlin, Exhibition of Belgian Artists (Portrait of the Artist's Father)

The street Avenue Jean de la Hoese in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, is named after him.

• Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium • Brussels, Museum of Ixelles • Brussels, Charlier Museum • Gotha, Schlossgalerie (The Visit) • Leuven, Stedelijk Museum