An oil on canvas, Shepherdess and her cows by Adrien Joseph HEYMANS
An oil on canvas, Shepherdess and her cows by Adrien Joseph HEYMANS
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Adrien Joseph HEYMANS 1839-1921
Is a Belgian painter.
His painting is close to that of Barbizon and he is considered the spiritual father of the Calmpthout School.
This colony of landscape painters works en plein air and après-nature in the province of Antwerp.
He grew up in a small village near Antwerp, and was introduced to nature by one of his uncles.
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| Dimensions | 77.5 × 59 cm |
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In 1853, at the age of 14, he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, then Brussels.
He befriended the painter Isidore Meyers, and together they went to Paris and Barbizon in 1858 to study with the great masters of the naturalist school, Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau and François Millet.
After returning to Belgium, the artist enjoyed painting rural landscapes and country life.
He travels with a caravan, settling wherever his inspiration takes him, to paint as close to reality as possible.
His talent was recognized, and he was awarded medals and distinctions, notably at the international level in Saint-Louis in the United States in 1904 and in Argentina in 1910.
Along with Emile Claus, he was one of the founders of the Luminist art circle "Vie et Lumière" (1904) and, in 1905, of the "Art d'aujourd'hui" group.