BOSSUET François
VIEW OF CORDOBA, SPAIN
Oil on canvas: 53 x 73.3 cm / 20.9 x 28.8 ins
Signed and dated '1881' lower left
Painter of landscapes and town views.
François Bossuet was born in Ypres on August 22, 1798 and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) on September 30, 1889. He studied under Herreyns at the Antwerp Academy. He travelled to Portugal, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Germany and Holland. From 1855 to 1876 he taught at the Brussels Academy. In 1833 and 1872 Bossuet published two papers on perspective.
Bossuet’s works are abundant and remarkable for their precision, accuracy of perspective and their striking effects of light. His town views are very much in favour and constitute excellent topographical documents.
Bossuet’s work can be admired in the collections of the Antwerp and Brussels Royal Museums, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Ostend Mu.ZEE.
Period:
Ypres 1798 - Brussels 1889
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Antwerp - Bruges - Brussels - Ghent - Liège - London - Ostend
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 58-60.
P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 494.
