Gerard Portielje

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Gerard Portielje (born February 6, 1856 in Antwerp , † May 18, 1929 in Remich ) was a Belgian genre painter.

He was born the son of the painter Jan Portielje and Eulalie Lemaire. He married Caroline-Henriëtte Andreikovits on September 16, 1882 (* April 23, 1859). They had a son, Alfred-Johannes-Victor (* 1883). His brother Edward Portielje also became a painter.

He studied at the Sint-Ignatius Handelsschool in Antwerp and became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1870 under Edmond Rumfels , Polydore Beaufaux , Joseph van Lerius and Edward Dujardin .

In 1887 he went on a study trip to the Vosges and Alsace . In 1898 he traveled to England, where he visited, among other things, Lowestoft , the easternmost city in Great Britain .

He lived at various addresses in Antwerp before moving to Harmoniestraat 80 in 1888, in a house of his own taste with a Flemish neo-baroque interior.

From 1898 to 1925 he was a drawing teacher at the Antwerp municipal school in the Lange Leemstraat.

In 1914 he fled to England via Ostend when the First World War broke out . He stayed there during the war years in Worcester Park, a district of the London Borough of Sutton . He painted landscapes and country houses in the area.

In 1919 the family returned to Antwerp. Portielje specialized in painting genre scenes. For certain motifs he enlisted the help of other painters, e. B. Eugène Rémy Maes painted animals in his genre paintings.

Gerard Portielje worked closely with art dealers to sell his works. There were business relationships with the American art dealer Albert D'Huyvetter.

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SURNAME Portielje, Gerard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1929
Place of death Remich