Louis Dubois
Louis Dubois (born December 13, 1830 in Schaerbeek , † April 28, 1880 ibid) was a Belgian painter.
Louis Dubois was a follower of Courbet without being his pupil. His versatile works include portraits, landscapes, navies, genre paintings and still lifes, and in the luminosity of the coloring follow Jacob Jordaens .
In 1857 he exhibited the following pictures in the Brussels Salon:
- The Redemptorist ,
- A priest preparing for the sacrifice of mass.
1860 followed
- The storks (1860, Brussels Museum),
- Roulette ,
- The choirboy .
The Brussels Salon of 1863 brought
- Solitude , a large, realistically treated landscape, the center of which is a dead deer.
Other outstanding creations of Dubois are:
- The billiards player ,
- The Scheldt ,
- Flemish interior ,
- The mill ,
- Autumn in the ardennes ,
- Cranes and ducks ,
- Sunset ,
- Sunrise on a swamp ,
- The Meuse near Dordrecht etc.
He died in Brussels on April 28, 1880.
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| SURNAME | Dubois, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaerbeek |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1880 |
| Place of death | Schaerbeek |