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See also:HENRI See also:JEAN AUGUSTIN DE See also:BRAEKELEER (184o-1888)
, Belgian painter, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp
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He was trained by his See also:father, a genre painter, and his See also:uncle, See also:Baron See also:Henri See also:Leys, and devoted himself to scenes of everyday Antwerp See also:life
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The first pictures he exhibited, "The See also:Laundry" (See also:Van Cutsem collection, See also:Brussels), and " The Coppersmith's Workshop " (Vleeshovwer collection, Antwerp), were shown at the Antwerp See also:exhibition in 1861
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He received the See also:gold See also:medal at Brussels in 1872 for " The Geographer " and " The See also:Lesson " (both in the Brussels See also:gallery); the gold medal at See also:Vienna in 1873 for " The Painter's Studio " and " Grandmother's Birthday "; and the medal of See also:honour at the Exposition Universelle at See also:Amsterdam for " The See also:Pilot See also:House." Among his more notable See also:works are " A Shoemaker " (1862), " A Tailor's Workroom " (1863), " A Gardener " (1864, Antwerp gallery), " Interior of a See also: |
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