Edouard Agneessens 1870 - The Young Samoilov - Russian Comedian - Saint Petersburg -

aPortrait of the son of Vassili Samoilov (1813-1887), Russian actor who was the star of the Imperial Theater in Saint Petersburg. Full biography on: Vassili Samoilov — Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) and Artist Samoylov Vasily Vasilievich (artinvestment.ru)
Signed and titled on the back: “Ed. Agneessens – The son of the great Russian tragedian Samoilov declaiming a scene from Ivan the Terrible” (See Photos)

By Édouard Joseph Alexandre Agneessens, 1842-1885, Belgian painter and in particular an excellent portraitist. A student of Jean-François Portaels at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, his hometown, he was part of the L'Art Libre group in 1860. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Prix de Rome 1869. Between 1869 and 1870, he lived in Russia in Saint Petersburg. Shortly after, mental disorders led him to be interned in Uccle. He died there at the age of 42 on August 20, 1885. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Schaerbeek. Artist listed in Bénézit, Arto and Piron, Coté Artprice, Artnet, Akoun...

Label of the Galerie Georges Giroux on the back, which was the largest art dealer in Brussels in the first half of the 20th century.
Oil painting on canvas mounted on mahogany panel.
Measuring 37cm x 28cm without frame, 46cm x 36cm overall.
The pictorial layer is in excellent original condition.
Never cleaned and a little dirty, it has no repaints or repairs of any kind.
It is in a 1920 carved wooden frame with some minor normal wear.
Table in its strict very good original condition.

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