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Allegory of the Christian Soul between Virtue and Vice
Auction: 04/01/2009
Lot: 331
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Gustave (Gustaf) Baron Wappers AUCTION RECORDS
1803 Antwerp, Belgium - 1874 Paris. Known for: Romantic historical genre and allegorical painting, teaching.
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp - 6 December 1874 Paris) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish. He signed works... Read full biography
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp - 6 December 1874 Paris) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish. He signed works by the name Gustaf Wappers. He studied at the Royal Academy of Antwerp*, and in Paris during 1826.... Read full biography
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp - 6 December 1874 Paris) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish. He signed works by the name Gustaf Wappers. He studied at the Royal Academy of Antwerp*, and in Paris during 1826. The movement of Romanticism* with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first painting, The... Read full biography
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp - 6 December 1874 Paris) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish. He signed works by the name Gustaf Wappers. He studied at the Royal Academy of Antwerp*, and in Paris during 1826. The movement of Romanticism* with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first painting, The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden, appeared at the appropriate moment and had marvelous success in the Brussels Salon during 1830, the year of the Belgian Revolution. While political, this remarkable work revolutionized the direction of Flemish... Read full biography
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp - 6 December 1874 Paris) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish. He signed works by the name Gustaf Wappers. He studied at the Royal Academy of Antwerp*, and in Paris during 1826. The movement of Romanticism* with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first painting, The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden, appeared at the appropriate moment and had marvelous success in the Brussels Salon during 1830, the year of the Belgian Revolution. While political, this remarkable work revolutionized the direction of Flemish painters. Wappers was invited to the court at Brussels, and was favoured with commissions. In 1832 the city of Antwerp appoin... Read full biography
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