Edouard Agneessens

Edouard Agneessens
Born	Edouard Agneessens (1842-07-24)24 July 1842 Brussels, Belgium
Died	20 July 1885(1885-07-20) (aged 42) Uccle, Belgium
Education	Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
Occupation	painter

Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a Belgian painter[1] born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,[2] and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome.[3] 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.[3] His works include Standing Male Nude (1870), Ladies by a Piano, and Bloemenstilleven. He died in 1885 in Uccle.

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Honours

• 1881: Knight in the Order of Leopold.[4]

Sources

• P. & V. Berko, 1981: Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875, p. 11 Knokke
• P. Piron, 1999: De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw. Art in Belgium ISBN 90-76676-01-1
• Biographie Nationale, Koninklijke Academie van België, deel XXX

References

1. www.artnet.com : Edouard Agneessens
2. Berko
3. Bénédite, Léonce (1910). Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 290.
4. Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881