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.