Rik Wouters
(1882 - 1916)
 

Hendrik Emil (Rik) Wouters was a Belgian painter, sculptor and draughtsman. Wouters produced 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures in his 34 years before his illness-caused death. He died partway through the First World War on 11 July 1916 in Amsterdam. A sculptor, painter, draughtsman and etcher of typically fauvist style, Wouters' art resembled the works of artists including Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and André Derain – the "forefathers" of Fauvism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Wouters

Woman Ironing
1912
Oil on canvas
107  × 123 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/woman-ironing

 Theo Van Rysselberghe
(1862 - 1926)
 

Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe  was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théo_van_Rysselberghe

Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium
1891
Oil on canvas
120 × 86 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/maria-sethe-at-the-harmonium

 James Ensor
(1860 - 1949)
 

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor

The Intrigue
1890
Oil on canvas
89.5 x 149 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-intrigue

Henri De Braekeleer
(1840 - 1888)

Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer was a Belgian painter. He was born and died in Antwerp. He was trained in drawing by his father Ferdinand de Braekeleer, a well-known genre painter, and his uncle Jan August Hendrik Leys. Braekeleer entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1854. Although he remained a student there until 1861, he publicly exhibited his paintings for the first time in 1858, when Reaper and Washerwoman (locations unknown) were shown at the Antwerp Salon. In 1863, he went to Germany and, in 1864, to the Netherlands, studying works by 16th- and 17th-century painters in both countries. The influence of Johannes Vermeer was especially important, seen in one of de Braekeleer's most characteristic subjects: a single person absorbed in a quiet activity, shown in an interior lit by a window. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Braekeleer

The Art Lover
1884
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 79.3 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-art-lover

Alexandre Cabanel 
(1823 - 1889)
 

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Cabanel

Cleopatra
1887
Oil on canvas
162 x 287.6 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/cleopatra

Henri Leys
(1815 - 1869)

Henri Leys, Hendrik Leys or Jan August Hendrik, Baron Leys  was a Belgian painter and printmaker. He was a leading representative of the historical or Romantic school in Belgian art and became a pioneer of the Realist movement in Belgium. His history and genre paintings and portraits earned him a European-wide reputation and his style was influential on artists in and outside Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_August_Hendrik_Leys

 

Albrecht Dürer Visiting Antwerp in 1520
1855
Acrylic on canvas
90 × 160 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/albrecht-durer-visiting-antwerp-in-1520

Adriaen Brouwer
(1605 - 1638)
 

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression. In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters. Although Brouwer produced only a small body of work, Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt collected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Brouwer

Village Fair
1964
Oil on panel
46 × 62 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/village-fair-1