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See also:GALLAIT, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS (1810-1887) , Belgian painter, was See also:born at Tournay, in See also:Hainaut, See also:Belgium, on the 9th of May 18ro. He first studied in his native See also:town under See also:Hennequin. In 1832 his first picture, " See also:Tribute to See also:Caesar," won a See also:prize at the See also:exhibition at See also:Ghent. He then went to See also:Antwerp to prosecute his studies under Mathieu Ignace See also:Van Bree, and in the following See also:year exhibited at the See also:Brussels See also:Salon " See also:Christ Healing the See also:Blind." This picture was See also:purchased by subscription and placed in the See also:cathedral at Tournay. Gallait next went to See also:Paris, whence he sent to the Belgian Salons "See also:Job on the Dunghill," "See also:Montaigne Visiting See also:Tasso in See also:Prison"; and, in 1841, " The See also:Abdication of See also:Charles V.," in the Brussels See also:Gallery. This was hailed as a See also:triumph, and gained for the painter a See also:European reputation. See also:Official invitations then caused him to See also:settle at Brussels, where he died on the loth of See also:November 1887. Among his greater See also:works may be named: " The Last Honours paid to See also:Counts See also:Egmont and See also:Horn by the Corporations of the Town of Brussels," now at Tournay; " The See also:Death of Egmont," in the See also:Berlin gallery; the " See also:Coronation of Baudouin, See also:Emperor of See also:Constantinople," painted for See also:Versailles; " The Temptation of St See also:Anthony," in the See also:palace at Brussels; " The See also:Siege of See also:Antioch," " See also:Art and See also:Liberty," a " Portrait of M. B. Dumortier " and " The See also:Plague at Tournay," all in the Brussels gallery. " A Gipsy Woman and her See also:Children " was painted in 1852. " M. Gallait has all the gifts that may be acquired by See also:work, See also:taste, See also:judgment and determination," wrote See also:Theophile See also:Gautier; his art is that of a See also:man of tact, a skilled painter, happy in his dramatic treatment but superficial. No doubt, this Walloon artist, following the example of the Flemings of the See also:Renaissance and the treatment of Belgian classical painters and the See also:French Romantic school, sincerely aimed at truth; unfortunately, misled by contemporary taste, he could not conceive of it excepting as dressed in sentimentality. As an artist employed by the See also:State he exercised considerable See also:influence, and for a See also:long See also:period he was the See also:leader of public taste in Brussels.
See Teichlin, Louis Gallait and See also:die Malerei in Deutschland (1853) J. Dujardin, L'Art flamand (1899); C. See also:Lemonnier, Histoire See also:des See also:beaux-arts en Belgique (1881).
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