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Encyclopedia Britannica



STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 906 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906) , Belgian painter, was born in Brussels on the 1 rth of May 1828. His father, an old officer in the service of William I., king of the Netherlands, was passionately fond of pictures, and readily allowed his son to draw in the
studio of Francois Navez, director of the Brussels
Academy
 . In 1844 Stevens went to Paris and worked under the instructing of Camille Roqueplan, a friend of his father's; he also attended the classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where
Ingres
  was then professor. In 1849 he painted at Brussels his first picture, " A Soldier in Trouble," and in the same year went back to Paris, where he definitely settled, and exhibited in the Salons. He then painted " Ash-Wednesday Morning," " Burghers and Country People finding at Daybreak the
Body
  of a Murdered
Gentleman
 ," " An Artist in Despair," and " The Love of Gold." In 1855 he exhibited at the Antwerp Salon a little picture called " At
Home
 ," which showed the painter's bent towards depicting ladies of fashion. At the
Great
  Exhibition in Paris, 1855, his contributions were remarkable, but in 18,57 he returned to graceful female subjects, and his path thenceforth was clear before him. At the
Great
  Exhibition of 1867 he was seen in a brilliant variety of works in the manner he had made his own, sending eighteen exquisite paintings; among them were the " Lady in
Pink
  " (in the Brussels Gallery), "
Consolation
 ," " Every Good Fortune," " Miss Fauvette," " Ophelia," and " India in Paris." At the Paris International Exhibitions of 1878 and 1889, and at the Historical Exhibition of Belgian Art, Brussels, 188o, he exhibited " The Four Seasons " (in the Palace at Brussels), " The Parisian Sphinx," " The Japanese Mask," " The Japanese Robe," and " The Lady-bird " (Brussels Gallery). He died on the 24th of August 1906. " Alfred Stevens is one of the race of great painters," wrote Camille Lemonnier, " and like them he takes immense pains with the execution of his
work
 ." The example of his finished technique was salutary, not merely to his brethren in Belgium, but to many foreign painters who received encouragement from the study of his method. The brother of Alfred Stevens, Joseph Stevens, was a great painter of dogs and dog life.
See J. du Jardin, L'Ari flamand; Camille Lemonnier, Histoire des beaux arts en Belgique.


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