Xavier De Cock

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Xavier De Cock (born March 10, 1818 in Ghent , † August 11, 1896 in Deurle in the municipality of Sint-Martens-Latem ) was a Belgian animal painter.

Xavier de Cock was an older brother of César de Cock (1823-1904).

Xavier de Cock studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Gand from 1830 to 1835. He then became a student of Ferdinand de Braekeleer in Antwerp .

He went on a study trip to the Ardennes (1838–1839), then to Holland , where he copied the old masters. In the years from 1852 to 1853 he went via Normandy to Paris , where his brother César de Cock joined him in 1855. They settled in this town and made frequent visits to the artist town of Barbizon , where, following the example of their French friends, they became fans of open-air painting.

In 1857 Xavier successfully participated in the Paris Salon. The painting "Cows at the waterhole" exhibited there won the gold medal.

From 1857 he often stayed in the village of Sint-Denijs-Westrem near Ghent, where he made friends with the painter Albijn Van den Abeele. After getting married in 1860 he settled permanently in Deurle in the parish of Sint-Martens-Latem. However, he returned to Paris every spring, where he met his brother César.

The artist mostly painted landscapes in the style of the Barbizon school , almost always with grazing cows or sheep in the foreground. Very rarely did he paint genre pictures, portraits and still lifes. In Deurle he trained some young artists who founded the so-called École de Laethem-Saint-Martin .

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SURNAME De Cock, Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1896
Place of death Deurle in the municipality of Sint-Martens-Latem