Charles van Beveren
Portrait of Carolina Frederica Kerst, Wife of Louis Royer
Portrait Of Louis Royer. Sculptor
The Duet
Charles van Beveren (1809–1850), was a Belgian artist, who spent much of his life in Amsterdam.
Life
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 at 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
Portrait of the sculptor Louis Royer, 1830
Carolina Frederic Kerst, wife of Louis Royer, pendant
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
Bryan,1886-9
"Charles van Beveren (1809 - 1850)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
Sources
This article incorporates text from the article "BEVEREN, Charles Van" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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