BARON EGIDE

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• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES GUSTAVE

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• BARON EGIDE CHARLES GUSTAVE WAPPERS (1803-1874)

WAPPERS (1803-1874)  , Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp on the 23rd of August 1803 . After studying at the Antwerp Academy he went to Paris in 1826 . The Romantic movement was then astir in France, and in that vehement struggle towards a new ideal artists and political men were thrown together . Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first exhibited picture, " The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden," appearing at the appropriate moment, had a marvellous success in the Brussels Salon of 183o . The picture, although political, was in fact a remarkable work, which revolutionized the taste of Flemish painters . Wappers was invited to the court of Brussels, and was favoured with commissions . In 1832 the city of Antwerp appointed him professor of painting, and his triumph was complete when he exhibited at the Antwerp Salon of 1834 his masterpiece, " An Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 (Brussels Gallery) . He was subsequently appointed painter to the king of the Belgians, and at the death of Matthieu van Bree he was made director of the Antwerp Academy . Of his very numerous works we may name " Christ Entombed," " Charles I. taking leave of his Children," " Charles IX.," " Camoens," " Peter the Great at Saardam," and " Boccaccio at the Court of Joanna of Naples." Louis Philippe gave him a commission to paint a large picture for the gallery at Versailles, " The Defence of Rhodes by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem," a work finished in 1844, when he received from the king of the Belgians the title of baron . After retiring from the post of director of the Antwerp Academy, he settled in 1853 in Paris, where he died on the 6th of December 1874 . See J. du Jardin, L'Art flamand ; Camille Lemonnier, Histoire des beaux arts en Belgique; E . Fetis, " Notice sur Gustave Wappers," Annuaire de l'academie royale de Belgique (1884) .