Artist
Edouard Agneessens
Belgian, 1842–1885
Edouard Agneessens was a Belgian Impressionism artist. 9 works are cataloged here, principally at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Edouard Agneessens was born in Brussels.
Overview
Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a Belgian painter born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Agneessens later built up quite a career in Saint-Petersburg, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder. His works include Standing Male Nude (1870), Ladies by a Piano, and Bloemenstilleven. He died in 1885 in Uccle.
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