Louis Pierre Verwée - Shepherd with animals
Summary
Verwee, Louis Pierre; Shepherd with Animals; Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/shepherd-with-animals-76960
Louis-Pierre Verwee (1807–1877) was born in Kortrijk. He abandoned school prematurely to become a student at the Academy of Fine Arts of Kortrijk. His instructors there included prominent landscape and animal painter Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (1785–1844). He later studied with the landscape and animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven in Ghent. He established a lifelong friendship with Verboeckhoven and the two artists regularly created artworks together. He followed Verboeckhoven to Brussels.
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Date
1850
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Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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public domain