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LOUIS GALLAIT (1810-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:GALLAIT (1810-1887)  , Belgian painter, was See also:born at Tournay, in See also:Hainaut, See also:Belgium, on the 9th of May 18ro . He first studied in his native See also:town under See also:Hennequin . In 1832 his first picture, " See also:Tribute to See also:Caesar," won a See also:prize at the See also:exhibition at See also:Ghent . He then went to See also:Antwerp to prosecute his studies under Mathieu Ignace See also:Van Bree, and in the following See also:year exhibited at the See also:Brussels See also:Salon " See also:Christ Healing the See also:Blind." This picture was See also:purchased by subscription and placed in the See also:cathedral at Tournay . See also:Gallait next went to See also:Paris, whence he sent to the Belgian Salons "See also:Job on the Dunghill," "See also:Montaigne Visiting See also:Tasso in See also:Prison"; and, in 1841, " The See also:Abdication of See also:Charles V.," in the Brussels See also:Gallery . This was hailed as a See also:triumph, and gained for the painter a See also:European reputation . See also:Official invitations then caused him to See also:settle at Brussels, where he died on the loth of See also:November 1887 . Among his greater See also:works may be named: " The Last Honours paid to See also:Counts See also:Egmont and See also:Horn by the Corporations of the Town of Brussels," now at Tournay; " The See also:Death of Egmont," in the See also:Berlin gallery; the " See also:Coronation of Baudouin, See also:Emperor of See also:Constantinople," painted for See also:Versailles; " The Temptation of St See also:Anthony," in the See also:palace at Brussels; " The See also:Siege of See also:Antioch," " See also:Art and See also:Liberty," a " Portrait of M . B . Dumortier " and " The See also:Plague at Tournay," all in the Brussels gallery . " A Gipsy Woman and her See also:Children " was painted in 1852 . " M .

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work, See also:taste, See also:judgment and determination," wrote See also:Theophile See also:Gautier; his art is that of a See also:man of tact, a skilled painter, happy in his dramatic treatment but superficial . No doubt, this Walloon artist, following the example of the Flemings of the See also:Renaissance and the treatment of Belgian classical painters and the See also:French Romantic school, sincerely aimed at truth; unfortunately, misled by contemporary taste, he could not conceive of it excepting as dressed in sentimentality . As an artist employed by the See also:State he exercised considerable See also:influence, and for a See also:long See also:period he was the See also:leader of public taste in Brussels . See Teichlin, See also:Louis Gallait and See also:die Malerei in Deutschland (1853) J . Dujardin, L'Art flamand (1899); C . See also:Lemonnier, Histoire See also:des See also:beaux-arts en Belgique (1881) .

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