DELVIN Jean Joseph
THE WHITE HORSE
Oil on canvas: 60 x 50 cm / 23.6 x 19.7 ins
Signed lower right
Painter of figures and genre scenes, animals and landscapes.
Jean Joseph Delvin was a pupil of Théodore-Joseph Canneel at the Fine Arts Academy in Ghent and of Jean-François Portaels and Alfred Cluysenaar at the Brussels Academy. He made a study trip to Spain. He taught at the Brussels Fine Arts Academy and later became its principal.
His bullfights recall those of Goya.
He was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his “Summer Morning”.
Period:
Ghent 1853 - 1922
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Brussels - Ghent - Liège - Paris - Venice
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 500, illustration p. 340.