Pieter de Josselin de Jong - The Petition

Pieter de Josselin de Jong: The Petition
Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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ption, composition, and color. A painter who has had no little influence • in forming some of the younger talents ofBelgium is Jean-Francois Portaels, the painter of A Daughter of the East, of which wegive a steel engraving. He was born in 1820, at Vilvorde, a small town between Brussels andMalines. He studied in the Academy at Antwerp, with Navez at Brussels, and afterwardwith Delaroche in Paris. He was thus steeped in classicism, and he has never emerged fromit, but this did not prevent him from becoming a successful and useful teacher. He wasmade director of the Academy at Ghent, and, later, professor at Brussels, where his instructionwas much sought for. He has travelled all over Europe and in the East, and his pictures areoften drawn from scenes observed by him in his various journeyings. Among his pupils oneof the best is Emile-Charles Wauters, the painter of the Mary of Burgundy sworn torespect the Privileges of the Commons of the City of Brussels, 1477, one of two large pic-
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o HI- UJQ. LlJ I ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 31T tures decorating the staircase of the Hotel de Ville in that city; the other, by the sameartist, Duke Jean III. of Brabant ceding to the Guilds of Brussels the right to elect theirBurgomasters, 1421. The picture we engrave, Mary of Burgundy before the Sheriffs ofGhent, has no little character in the attitudes and faces of the men, but the dress and headof Mary are altogether modern, and by this fault the value of the picture as a historical