CARPENTERO Henri Joseph Gommarus
FESTIVITIES IN FLANDERS
Oil on canvas: 60.5 x 80 cm / 23.8 x 31.5 ins
Signed lower left
Painter of genre scenes.
Henri Carpentero was the son of Jean-Charles Carpentero. Hij was a pupil of Ferdinand De Braekeleer and Nicaise De Keyser.
His productions represented scenes of family life: rustic interiors and countrysides with figures, treated in the spirit of the Antwerp School of 1840-1850.
Period:
Antwerp 1820 - Schaerbeek (Brussels) 1874
Belgian School
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 89.