DE LOOSE Basile

BETWEEN TWO CLASSES

Oil on canvas: 68 x 80 cm / 26.8 x 31.5 in
Signed, situated and dated 'Bruxelles 1864' lower right

Painter of genre scenes, interiors and portraits.

Basile De Loose was taught by his father, Jean-Joseph De Loose, by Mathieu Van Brée and at the Antwerp and Saint-Nicolas Academies. He lived in Paris from 1834 till 1835 and settled down in Brussels. He also exhibited in Germany.

Exhibition: ‘De Loose – een 19de-eeuws schildersgeslacht, 1769 – 1885’, Ignace De Wilde, Zele 1985.

Period:
Zele 1809 - Brussels 1885
Belgian School

Exhibitions:
Berlin - Leipzig - Mons - Saint-Nicolas

Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 199.