Joseph Edouard Stevens - Artist Info

About Joseph Edouard Stevens

  • Biography

    Joseph Édouard Stevens (26 November 1816 – 2 August 1892) was a Belgian animalier painter and engraver.
    He was the son of Jean François Léopold Stevens (1791–1837), a Brussels art dealer and collector, and the elder brother of the painter Alfred Stevens and of the art critic Arthur Stevens (1825 – 1890). He frequented as a dilettante the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and followed courses by Louis Robbe and Eugène Verboeckhoven.
    Partly self-taught, he finished his training in Paris, without enrolling in a school, and frequented the studio of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, as well as painters of the Barbizon School and of the "Groupe du Restaurant du Havre" including Thomas Couture, Eugène Isabey, Théodore Rousseau and others.

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