Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 100 cm x 70 cm

Stobbaerts Pieter furnished interior

Stobbaerts Pieter (Bruxelles 1865-Kasterlee 1948)

Realistic painter of landscapes and interiors. Nephew of Jan Stobbaerts. Studies at the Academy of Brussels (1879-90, J.Quinaux, J.Portaels). Exhibits with the Union des Arts (1876-85).

Founding member of the Voorwaaarts circle (1885). President of the Le Lierre circle and member of the Laeken Art circle.

His realistic painting is inspired by Flemish and Brabant landscapes. Colorist temperament and concern for materials.

Works in Brabant, in Flanders and the Netherlands. Dies unexpectedly during a painting session in Campine.

Source : Arto - Biographical Dictionary plastic arts in Belgium.

Jan Stobbaerts :

Born in Antwerp on 18 mars 1838 and died in Schaerbeek on 25 November 1914, is a painter and printmaker known for his paintings of animals, of landscapes, portraits. Stobbaerts was a pioneer of realism and "native" impressionism in Belgium.

Son of Martinus Josephus Stobbaerts, carpenter, born in Antwerp in 1814, and Joanna Rosalie Pardon, born in Antwerp in 1816, he was born in Antwerp on 18 mars 1838 and was declared to the civil registry under the first names of Joannes Baptiste.

Orphan from the age of six, he was placed in the care of various members of his family, very poor, and did not attend school. At the age of eight already, he was apprenticed to a carpenter-cabinetmaker, and later, with another boss, he specialized in tobacco tin lids. Ensuite, he was the assistant of a decorative painter. He then painted his own compositions which he sold in the street. In 1856, he became the pupil of Emmanuel Noterman, an animal painter.

He began to paint in 1855 and he exhibited for the first time in Brussels in 1857.

Schaerbeek named one of its arteries avenue Jan Stobbaerts.

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