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See also:WAPPERS, EGIDE See also:CHARLES GUSTAVE, See also:BARON (1803-1874) , Belgian painter, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp on the 23rd of See also:August 1803. After studying at the Antwerp See also:Academy he went to See also:Paris in 1826. The Romantic See also:movement was then astir in See also:France, and in that vehement struggle towards a new ideal artists and See also:political men were thrown together. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take See also:advantage of this See also:state of affairs, and his first exhibited picture, " The Devotion of the Burgomaster of See also:Leiden," appearing at the appropriate moment, had a marvellous success in the See also:Brussels See also:Salon of 183o. The picture, although political, was in fact a remarkable See also:work, which revolutionized the See also:taste of Flemish painters. Wappers was invited to the See also:court of Brussels, and was favoured with commissions. In 1832 the See also:city of Antwerp appointed him See also:professor of See also:painting, and his See also:triumph was See also:complete when he exhibited at the Antwerp Salon of 1834 his masterpiece, " An See also:Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 (Brussels See also:Gallery). He was subsequently appointed painter to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Belgians, and at the See also:death of Matthieu See also:van Bree he was made director of the Antwerp Academy. Of his very numerous See also:works we may name " See also:Christ Entombed," " Charles I. taking leave of his See also:Children," " Charles IX.," " See also:Camoens," " See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the See also:Great at Saardam," and " See also:Boccaccio at the Court of See also:Joanna of See also:Naples." 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 Philippe gave him a See also:commission to paint a large picture for the gallery at See also:Versailles, " The See also:Defence of See also:Rhodes by the Knights of St See also:John of See also:Jerusalem," a work finished in 1844, when he received from the king of the Belgians the See also:title of baron. After retiring from the See also:post of director of the Antwerp Academy, he settled in 1853 in Paris, where he died on the 6th of See also:December 1874.
See J. du Jardin, L'See also:Art flamand ; Camille See also:Lemonnier, Histoire See also:des See also:beaux arts en Belgique; E. See also:Fetis, " See also:Notice sur Gustave Wappers," Annuaire de l'academie royale de Belgique (1884).
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