Artist
Albrecht De Vriendt
Belgian, 1843–1900
Albrecht De Vriendt was a Belgian Post-Impressionism painter. 46 works are cataloged here, principally at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, most of them oil paintings. Albrecht De Vriendt was born in Ghent.
Albrecht Frans Lieven De Vriendt or Albrecht De Vriendt (In French-language publications referred to as Albert De Vriendt or Albert François Lieven De Vriendt) (Ghent, 8 December 1843 – Antwerp, 14 October 1900) was a Belgian painter known for his genre scenes, history paintings, interiors and figure paintings. He was also active as an author, publisher and copyist. He was also a watercolourist and an etcher.
He participated in the monumentalist movement in Belgium and continued the tradition of the Belgian Romantic-historical school long after it had been abandoned in his country and abroad. He was the brother of the painter Juliaan De Vriendt with whom he often collaborated on decorative projects. He was a director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp.
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