Emile Wauters

Emile Wauters ( born November 19, 1846 in Brussels, † December 11, 1933 in Paris) was a Belgian painter.

Wauters enjoyed four years the teaching of Jean -François Portaels, then went to Paris, where he joined Jean -Léon Gérôme, and from there to Italy and Germany. After the beautiful Edith, the body of Harold's on the battlefield of Hastings finding drawn with his work the attention of the Director Adolphe van Soust de Borken Feldt on itself, the government sent him on his own initiative at the opening of the Suez Canal after the November 17, 1869 Egypt, from where he brought back a large number of sketches and a series of genre pictures.

In addition to his oil paintings, whose subject he chose freely, Wauters took well over and over again to contract work; such as in 1876 when he painted evocative for the Brussels City Hall Mary of Burgundy, the privileges of the city of Brussels.

Reception

His history paintings are characterized by rounded composition, fine characteristics and brilliant coloring. Yet he is excellent in effigy, where he sometimes, but thoroughly modern self - conception, subsequent to Velázquez. With a fine taste in the arrangement, he combines an art of characterization which completely white to exhaust the essence of the sitter. Wauters was a member of the Academies of Fine Arts in Berlin and Munich and wore large gold medal of the Berlin exhibition.

Works (selection)

• The beautiful Edith, the body of Harold's on the battlefield of Hastings finding.
• Mary of Burgundy to the lives of their councils and Hugonet d' Himbercourt pleading, in 1871.
• The Madness of Hugo van der Goes, in 1871.