Louis Pierre Verwée and Eugène Verboeckhoven - Cattle crossing a ford in a valley with travellers on a sandy track nearby

Louis-Pierre Verwee (1807–1877) was born in Kortrijk. He abandoned school prematurely to become a student at the Academy of Fine Arts of Kortrijk. His instructors there included prominent landscape and animal painter Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (1785–1844). He later studied with the landscape and animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven in Ghent. He established a lifelong friendship with Verboeckhoven and the two artists regularly created artworks together. He followed Verboeckhoven to Brussels.