Jean Marie Constantin van Beers (1852-1927)

An open landscape in threatening weather

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Jean Marie Constantin van Beers (1852-1927)
An open landscape in threatening weather
signed lower right Jan van Beers
oil on panel
26.8 x 36 cm
offered with two pen and ink drawings by unknown hands, one of a blasted tree at the edge of a cliff and the other of muleteers in a rocky landscape (3)

Lot Essay

The painter was born in Lier as the son of the poet of the same name. After his training at the academy of Antwerp he went to Paris in 1878 where he joined the studio of his compatriot Alfred Stevens. Afterwards he enjoyed great success as a painter of interiors, history painting, portraits and landscapes.