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

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