Charles Van Beveren
Appearance
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Born | Charles van Beveren ca. 1809 |
Died | ca. 1850 |
Education | Royal Institute of the Netherlands |
Charles van Beveren (c. 1809–1850), was a Belgian artist, who spent much of his life in Amsterdam.
Life
[edit]He was born at Mechlin in 1809 and studied art at the academy of his native city and at Antwerp. He settled in Amsterdam in 1830, subsequently visiting Paris, Rome, and other cities of Italy, and distinguished himself as a painter of history, genre, and portraits. He died in Amsterdam in 1850.[1]
In 1850, Van Beveren was elected a correspondent, living in the Netherlands, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
Works
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Portrait of the sculptor Louis Royer, 1830
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Carolina Frederic Kerst, wife of Louis Royer, pendant
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Ecce Homo
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The duet
His best known of his works are:[1]
- Louis Royer and his wife, pendant marriage portraits now in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
- The Confession of a Sick Girl (in the Pinakothek at Munich).
- Male Figure. A study (in the Rotterdam Museum).
- The Vision of St. Ignatius.
- The Death of St. Anthony of Padua (in the church of Moses and Aaron at Amsterdam, his chef-d'oeuvre).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bryan 1886
- ^ "Charles van Beveren (1809 - 1850)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
Sources
[edit]This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Beveren, Charles Van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Categories:
- 1800s births
- 1850 deaths
- Artists from Mechelen
- Dutch painters
- Dutch male painters
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni
- 19th-century Belgian painters
- Belgian male painters
- 19th-century Belgian male artists
- 19th-century male artists
- Dutch painter stubs