Louis Royer (painter)

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Portrait of the sculptor Louis Royer by Charles van Beveren , 1830, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .

Louis Royer (born August 1, 1793 in Mechelen , Austrian Netherlands , † June 5, 1868 ) was a Belgian-Dutch painter and sculptor .

Life

Royer was a son of the geometer Johan Royer and his wife Barbara Lemaître. Royer received his first artistic lessons at the art academy in his hometown. There he was a student of Jean-François van Geel between 1810 and 1818 .

In the spring of 1819 he went to Paris with his friend and colleague Jean-Baptiste Debay , where he was a student of Alexandre Cabanel for a short time at the École des beaux-arts there . On October 20, 1823 traveled to Rome via Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Friborg, Bern, Lucerne, Como, Milan, Bologna and Florence . There he soon found a connection in the circle of artists around the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen .

In April 1826 Royer returned to his homeland. He settled in The Hague and founded a large studio. On June 15, 1831, he married Carolina Frederica Kerst there. In 1829 he was made a knight of the Belgian Ordre du Lion .

Louis Royer died eight weeks before his 75th birthday on June 5, 1858 in Mechelen, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

as a painter
  • Hébe .
  • Allegory “vie & mort” .
  • Nuits des romains .
as a sculptor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today Province of Antwerp , Belgium

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous le temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff., Vol.?, S.?.
  • Guus van den Hout: Louis Royer (1793–1868). Een Vlaamse beeldhouwer in Amsterdam . Van Soeren, Amsterdam 1994, ISBN 90-6881-039-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Royer, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Dutch painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechelen
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1868