Jacques De Lalaing (1858-1917). Study For The Painting "prisoners Of War". 1883.

Mahogany wooden frame (normal wear). Frame dimensions: 51 x 40.5 cm. Brown mat. Dimensions of the watercolor: 34 x 27.5 cm. Unsigned.
Study for the painting, exhibited at the Lille Museum, "The prisoners of war", by Jacques de Lalaing in 1883.
Jacques de Lalaing is a Belgian painter and sculptor, born in London in 1858 and died in Brussels in 1917. Born in London , he moved to Brussels in 1875 to devote himself to painting. There he followed the courses of Jean-François Portaels and Louis Gallait at the Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited for the first time with the realistic artistic circle L'Essor in 1882. He was encouraged by the sculptors Thomas Vinçotte, of whom he became a pupil, and Jef Lambeaux, and began sculpture from 1884. He distinguished himself above all. as a portrait painter and animal keeper. We also owe him historical scenes, allegorical groups in bronze and funerary monuments. As a painter-decorator and sculptor, he carries out numerous public commissions. From 1896 he was a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and became its director from 1904 to 1913. Some of these works can be seen in the museums of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Lille and Tournai. In June 1909, he led the delegation of Belgian artists in Munich, at the tenth fourth-year fine arts exhibition organized by the Münchener Künstler Genossenschaft and the Münchener Secession, which took place in the "Glass Palace". He also participates in a personal capacity for oil painting and sculpture.