Items Similar to Family Portrait
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 14
Eugène Joseph VerboeckhovenFamily Portrait1871
1871
$25,000
£19,074.38
€21,714.68
CA$35,137.78
A$38,624.98
CHF 20,277.93
MX$459,278.74
NOK 260,414.70
SEK 237,209.64
DKK 162,243.50
About the Item
Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881)
Family Portrait, 1871
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated Lower Right
29 x 44 inches
34.5 x 49.5 inches with frame
Verboeckhoven began drawing and sculpting as a young child. In 1815, his family moved to Ghent, where he attended the Academy from 1816 to 1818 with support from the sculptor Albert Voituron (1787-1847) and later by a Ghent patron, Ferdinand Van der Haegen. From 1818 Verboeckhoven was a pupil of Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck, whose classical pastoral landscapes became a model for his own paintings, such as the Landscape with Cattle and A Cowherd by a Tree on display at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam and Halting Place.
In 1827, Verboeckhoven moved to Brussels with his family, and soon thereafter was made a director of the Musee de Bruxelles. Thanks to his initiative, the pictures in Antwerp Cathedral, including a number of significant works by Peter Paul Rubens, were saved when the town came under fire in 1832.
Verboeckhoven became a teacher at the Academie Royale in Brussels in 1845, and his pupils there included Louis-Pierre Verwee (1807-77), his son, Alfred Jaques Verwee, and the brothers Charles Tschaggeny (1815-94) and Edmond Tschaggeny (1813-73). Verboeckhoven frequently painted the animals as part of landscapes by J. B. Klombeck, Jean-Baptiste De Jonghe, Henri Van Assche, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Louis-Pierre Verwee.
Eugene Verboeckhoven is deemed to be one of the foremost animal painters of the nineteenth century. In Verboeckhoven's work animals often bear human characteristics and are reminiscent of bourgeois portraits of the time. In his book on Verboeckhoven, Berko writes "he could have been called the "Raphael of sheep", for his rams are so well drawn, arrogant and proud; his ewes surrounded by graceful lambs, look gentle and complacent as ewes do, and all his pastoral scenes are bathed in a warm, pleasing and golden light. Eugene Verboeckhoven was a remarkable painter of horses, goats and game; he also painted small figures on foot or on horseback, playing scrupulous attention to detail; the gun, the powder flask, the hunter's gaiters, down to the picturesque hat, the threadbare overcoat, the shepherd's crook, and of course the last-born baby lamb under the shepherd's arm."
- Creator:Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (1798 - 1881)
- Creation Year:1871
- Dimensions:Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 44 in (111.76 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Missouri, MO
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU747316274752
About the Seller
5.0
Vetted Professional Seller
Every seller passes strict standards for authenticity and reliability
Established in 1970
1stDibs seller since 2017
156 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: Several days
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Missouri, MO
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View AllMother and Children
By Bernard De Hoog
Located in Missouri, MO
Bernard DeHoog (1867-1943)
"Mother and Children"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left
Site Size: approx. 32.5 x 39.5 inches
Framed Size: approx. 39 x ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Made in the Shade
By William Henry Howe
Located in Missouri, MO
William Henry Howe (1846-1929)
"Made in the Shade" 1887
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated
Site Size: approx. 14.5 x 21.5 inches
Frames Size: approx. 17.5 x 24.5 inches
Provenance: Private Collection, St. Louis, Missouri thence by descent
William Henry Howe was born in Ravenna, Ohio in 1846. Of him it was written: "In the late nineteenth century no American artist was more thoroughly identified with the painting of cows than William Henry Howe." (Richter 128). In a style that combined Tonalism and Realism, he was a painter of light-filled pastoral landscapes that sometimes had sheep as well as cattle tended by their shepherds and herders.
He began a career as a businessman in St. Louis, and in his mid-thirties, changed course and went to Dusseldorf Germany to study art at the Royal Academy. In 1881, he went to Paris and studied with animal painters Felix Vuillefroy and Otto de Thoren. He also exhibited his work at the Paris Salons and the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889.
Travels in Holland in the 1880s with other artists inspired his interest in pastoral subjects, and during that time he began his cattle paintings...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Cattle at Daybreak
Located in Missouri, MO
Wooded Landscape with Cattle
By James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (American, 1847-1937)
Unframed: 22" x 18"
Framed: 27.5" x 31.5"
Signed Lower Right
Born i...
Category
Late 19th Century Land Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Feeding Time
By Paul E. Harney Jr.
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul E. Harney, Jr.
"Feeding Time" 1909
Oil on Wood Panel
Signed and Dated
Panel Size: approx 8 x 12 inches
Framed Size: approx. 16 x 19 inches
Paul Harney (1850-1915)
Born in New ...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Price Upon Request
Readying for Play
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: 25.5 x 23 inches
Joseph Gyselinckx was born in 1817. He was a genre painter in Antwerp. The artist was a student of F. de Brakeleer. He had two paintings included in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
The Andalusia
By John Frederick Herring Sr.
Located in Missouri, MO
The Andalusia
John Frederick Herring (English, 1795-1865)
Signed Lower Right
14 x 18 inches
18 x 22 inches with frame
Provenance: Frost &Reed, Ltd., London 1984
Herring, born in London in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America. The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses.[2] In the year 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, arriving in time to witness the Duke of Hamilton's "William" win the St. Leger Stakes horserace. By 1815, Herring had married Ann Harris; his sons John Frederick Herring Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring were all to become artists, while his two daughters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. When she was barely of age in 1845 Ann married Harrison Weir.
In Doncaster, England, Herring was employed as a painter of inn...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
You May Also Like
Livestock Landscape
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Eugène Verboeckhoven Oil on Panel 1844
By Eugène Verboeckhoven
Located in Den Haag, NL
For sale Oil painting on Mahogany Panel Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Warneton (België) 1798-1881 Schaarbeek (België).
This painting of Two Sheep so very well executed by the artist . ...
Category
Antique 1840s Belgian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint
Bergère et son troupeau
By Albert Charpin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Albert Charpin, born in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes in 1842, died in Asnières-sur-Seine in 1924. He was a naturalist painter associated with the Barbizon school. He painted real objects ...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
After Eugene Verboeckhoven Antique Belgian Pastoral Oil Painting Passing Brook
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exceptional mid-19th century pastoral oil painting, after Eugene Verboeckhoven's celebrated composition "Passing the Brook," depicts a serene rural scene where cows and sheep cr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Antique Landscape “Sheep and Goats” by Eugene Verboeckhoven circa 1859
By Eugène Verboeckhoven
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A finely detailed bucolic landscape capturing two sheep in the foreground and a pair of goats just behind them on a pasture of green grasses with golden billows of wheat in the background. In the distance we see hints of a windmill at the unusually low horizon beneath brilliant bright skies. The work is signed in his typical manner lower left.
ARTIST
Read about the life of Eugene Verboeckhoven...
Category
Antique 19th Century Belgian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint
Sheep with their Lamb
Located in St. Albans, GB
Edouard Woutermaertens
A wonderful example of one of Belgium's most highly collected animal painters work.
Painted on a beautiful panel it is signed and inscribed by the artist on t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
More Ways To Browse
Portrait Of Family
Painting Of Family
Antique Family Portraits
Peter Paul Rubens
Family Portrait Painting
Oil Painting Of Family
Shepherds Crook
Antique Shepherds Crook
Baby Lamb
Antique Powder Flasks
De Jonghe
Wild Horse Painting
English Oil Paintings Dogs
Horse Coach
Horse Painting Old
Hunting Dogs Paintings
Koi Fish Painting
Oil Painting Elephant