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BARON HENDRIK LEYS (1815-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 529 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON HENDRIK See also:LEYS (1815-1869)  , Belgian painter, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp on the 18th of See also:February 1815 . He studied under See also:Wappers at the Antwerp See also:Academy . In 1833 he painted " Combat d'un See also:grenadier et d'un cosaque," and in the following See also:year " Combat de Bourguignons et Flamands." In 1835 he went to See also:Paris where he was influenced by the Romantic See also:movement . Examples of this See also:period of his See also:painting are " See also:Massacre See also:des echevins de See also:Louvain," " Mariage flamand," " Le Roi des arbaletriers" and other See also:works . See also:Leys was an imitative painter in whose works may rapidly be detected the See also:schools which he had been studying before he painted them . Thus after his visit to See also:Holland in 1839 he reproduced many of the characteristics of the Dutch genre painters in such works as " See also:Franz See also:Floris se rendant a une fete " (1845) and " Service divin en Hollande " (185o) . So too the methods of Quentin See also:Matsys impressed themselves upon him after he had travelled in See also:Germany in 1852 . In 1862 Leys was created a See also:baron . At the See also:time of his See also:death, which occurred in See also:August 1869, he was engaged in decorating with See also:fresco the large See also:hall of the Antwerp Hotel de Ville .

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