Oil On Canvas Signed Jules Lambeaux (1858-1890)

View of a canal in Bruges: oil on canvas framed under glass in its gilded frame and signed upper left Jules Lambeaux. Jules Lambeaux (1858-1890) is the brother of the famous avant-garde sculptor Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908). After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he specialized in genre scenes. The Antwerp painter Charles Mertens, one of the founders of the XIII circle, a dissident offshoot of the avant-garde group Als Ik Kan "As I can" represented him in 1885 in a work entitled "l'atelier de Jules Lambeaux" today. now housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. In this second half of the 19th century, the Belgian movements were not sectarian but porous and the elective affinities broad; which commits us to seeing the effort undertaken by Jules Lambeaux to go beyond (or reconcile) the Flemish landscape tradition of the 17th, 18th centuries with a contemporary realistic approach.