VAN HAVERMAET Charles
THE OYSTER LOVER
Oil on panel: 45.5 x 56 cm / 17.9 x 22 in
Signed and dated '1900' lower right
Painter of genre scenes, portraits, characters, interiors and compositions.
Charles Van Havermaet was active in Antwerp where, in 1892, he lived at the same address as the painter Pierre Van Havermaet. From 1900 he also lived and worked in London.
He had a predilection for genre paintings, portraits, characters, interiors and compositions.
He participated in the “35th Exposition” at the Casino of Ghent in 1892 on the occasion of the Centenary of the ‘Société Royale pour l’Encouragement des Beaux-Arts de Gand’ [‘Royal Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Ghent’], at the “Exposition d’Anvers” in 1898, at the Royal Academy in London from 1901 to 1911 and at the “Salon Triennal des Beaux-Arts” in Brussels in 1903.
Provenance: Private Collection, Belgium.
Period:
Antwerp End 19th - Beginning of the 20th Century
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Antwerp
Literature:
P. Piron, "Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et XXe siècles", Ohain 2011, 3 Vol., Vol. 3, p. 639.