Emile Baes was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1879. Baes first trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Recognized for his great talent, he was quickly sent to Paris where he continued his training at the National School of Fine Arts under the direction of Cabanel and Bonnat. If Emile Baes started in an academic style, influenced by Flaubert, symbolism and orientalism, Baes found his way as well as that of success as a worldly painter of figures, portraits and nudes.

Emile Baes was a painter of nudes, historical scenes, and portraits. He was born in Brussels in 188799, and died in Paris in 1953. A student at the Brussels Academy, he continued his studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (Cabanel, Bonnat). He was also a Member of the Institut de France (Arto).