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ALFRED STEVENS (1828-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 906 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED STEVENS (1828-1906)  , Belgian painter, was born in Brussels on the 1 rth of May 1828 . His
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father, an old officer in the service of William I., king of the
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Netherlands, was passionately fond of pictures, and readily allowed his son to draw in the studio of Francois Navez, director of the Brussels Academy . In 1844 Stevens went to Paris and worked under the instructing of Camille Roqueplan, a friend of his father's; he also attended the classes at the Ecole
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des Beaux Arts, where Ingres was then professor . In 1849 he painted at Brussels his first picture, " A Soldier in Trouble," and in the same
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year went back to Paris, where he definitely settled, and exhibited in the Salons . He then painted " Ash-Wednesday
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Morning," " Burghers and Country
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People finding at Daybreak the
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Body of a Murdered Gentleman," " An Artist in Despair," and " The Love of Gold." In 1855 he exhibited at the Antwerp
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Salon a little picture called " At Home," which showed the painter's bent towards depicting ladies of fashion . At the
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Great
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Exhibition in Paris, 1855, his contributions were remarkable, but in 18,57 he returned to graceful
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female subjects, and his path thenceforth was clear before him . At the Great Exhibition of 1867 he was seen in a brilliant variety of
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works in the manner he had made his own, sending eighteen exquisite paintings; among them were the " Lady in
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Pink " (in the Brussels Gallery), " Consolation," " Every Good Fortune," "
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Miss Fauvette," " Ophelia," and " India in Paris." At the Paris International Exhibitions of 1878 and 1889, and at the
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Historical Exhibition of Belgian
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Art, Brussels, 188o, he exhibited " The Four Seasons " (in the Palace at Brussels), " The Parisian Sphinx," " The
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Japanese Mask," " The Japanese Robe," and " The Lady-
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bird " (Brussels Gallery) . He died on the 24th of August 1906 . "
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Alfred Stevens is one of the
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race of great painters," wrote Camille Lemonnier, " and like them he takes immense pains with the execution of his
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work." The example of his finished technique was salutary, not merely to his brethren in Belgium, but to many
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foreign painters who received encouragement from the study of his method . The
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brother of Alfred Stevens, Joseph Stevens, was a great painter of
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dogs and
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dog
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life . See J. du Jardin, L'
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Ari flamand; Camille Lemonnier, Histoire des beaux arts en Belgique .

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