Emile Claus
(1849 - 1924)

 

Emile Claus was a Belgian painter.  He trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with, amongst others, the landscape painter Jacob Jacobs. During his training, Claus attracted the attention of and found favour with the local upper middle class.
Artistically and financially, Claus soon prospered. The Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts purchased one of his works, and The Picknick (1887), his well-known painting showing a farmer’s family watching the Sunday outing of the urban bourgeoisie on the opposite bank of a small river (the Lys), was bought by the Belgian Royal Family.

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Waterloo Bridge, zon en regen. Maart
1916
Oil on canvas
102 x 127 cm
KMSK (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
https://fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/emile-claus-waterloo-bridge-zon-en-regen-maart