THE COIN COLLECTOR

Painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes with figures, animals and still lifes; engraver.

Léon Brunin was little more than a child when he started studying scupture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He went on to study under Franz Joris, but abandoned sculpture while still a young man and devoted himself to painting under the tutelage of Polydore Beaufaux and, subsequently, Charles Verlat, whose friend he became. He made his exhibition debut in 1880. Time spent in Holland enabled him to study Rembrandt’s technique. He exhibited in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Chicago, Philadelphia, Munich, Bordeaux and Liverpool. He was appointed as a teacher at the Antwerp Academy in 1886.