ENGELEN, LOUIS VAN

Title:

View in a Flemish Village

Nationality, Life:

Belgian, 1856 - 1941

Date:

Unknown

Medium:

Oil on panel, signed

Size:

9.5 x 12.5 in.

He was a painter of historical subjects, landscapes, portraits, urban landscapes and genre scenes. Engelen studied under Veriat at the academy in Lierre and later went to the Koninklijke in Antwerp. He was an enthusiastic traveller and was also a member of the Als 1k Kan (as I can) group and a founder member of the “X111” group in 1891. In the gallery in Antwerp there is a piece entitled “Belgian Emigrants;View of the Town of Antwerp.