Lievin de Winne

In 1850 he received a grant from the government of Belgium that enabled him to travel to Paris and from 1852 to 1855 he was able to share a studio with Jules Breton who subsequently wrote De Winne's biography. From 1861, De Winne resumed residency in Belgium where he established himself as a portrait painter to high society. His direct and insightful style won him many eminent clients and was a decisive break with the more romantic style of earlier Belgian portrait painting.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Lievin de Winne is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Musée Salies.

• Separation of Ruth and Naomi, 1853. • St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1854. • The holy women at the tomb of Christ, 1858. • Emile Breton in uniform of captain of the guard furniture of the Pas-de-Calais, Palace of Fine Arts, Lille. • Count and Countess of Flanders. • Leopold I, 1860, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. • P. Verhaegen, 1863. • L. Roelandt, 1864. • The American diplomat J.S. Sanford, 1878. Presented at the Universal Exposition in Paris. • Illustration — Mrs. Adolphe Neyt (1859) • Illustration — Paul de Vigne • Illustration — LLeopold I of Belgium (1860) • Illustration — L.A. Roelandt (1864) • Illustration — Portrait of a Lady