VERLAT, MICHEL MARIE CHARLES (1824-189o)

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VERLAT, MICHEL MARIE CHARLES (1824-189o) , Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp on the 25th of November 1824. He was a

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of Nicaise de Keyser, and studied at the Antwerp

Academy

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. In 1842 appeared his first important picture, " Pippin the Short Killing a

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." About 1849 he went to Paris, where he worked under Ary Scheffer. In 1855 he won a gold

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at the Exposition Universelle at Paris with his " Tiger Attacking a Herd of Buffaloes," and in 1858 exhibited " Le Coup de collier " (now in the Antwerp Gallery) at the Paris Salon. In 1866 he was appointed director of the

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, where he painted some fine portraits, notably those of the grand-duchess of Saxony and of the musician Liszt. Soon after his return to Antwerp in 1875 he visited Palestine, and brought back a large number of interesting pictures, including " Vox Populi " (Antwerp Gallery), " The Tomb of Jesus," and " The Flight into

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." In 1885 he was appointed director of the Antwerp Academy. Other important works by Verlat are the panoramas of the battle of Waterloo and the treaty of San Stefano, " Christ between the Two Thieves," " Defending the Flock " (Antwerp Gallery), " Oxen Ploughing in Palestine " (Antwerp Gallery), " Godfrey of

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at the Siege of Jerusalem " (Brussels Gallery), and " Sheep-Dog Defending the Flock." (Brussels Gallery). He executed a

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etchings, and published in 1879 a book on the Antwerp Academy. He died at Antwerp on the 23rd of October 189o.

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