Eugène Smits
Eugène Smits (born May 22, 1826 in Antwerp , † December 4, 1912 in Brussels ) was a Belgian portrait painter.
Smits studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with François-Joseph Navez .
In 1851 and 1852 he lived in Paris, where he met the brothers Joseph Stevens . and met Alfred Stevens , Jean-François Millet and Eugène Isabey . He took part in the Paris World's Fair in 1855 . From 1861 to 1864 he worked in Italy , where in 1862 he created a large-format painting “A Sunday Afternoon in Pincio”.
In 1868 he was a founding member of the Société libre des beaux-arts (Free Society of Fine Arts). Smits was elected a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in 1902 .
He wrote "Les pensées d'Eugène Smits" which appeared posthumously in 1913 with an illustration by Fernand Khnopff .
literature
- Smits, Eugène . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937.
- Smits, Eugène in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (online) .
- Paul Lambotte: Eugène Smits, artist-peintre (1826–1912) . Forgotten Books 2019 (reprint), ISBN 978-0365082040 .
Web links
- Eugène Smits. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smits, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1912 |
| Place of death | Brussels |