Joseph van Severdonck
Joseph van Severdonck (1819–1905)[1] was a Belgian artist.
Severdonck specialized in historical and genre paintings and studied under Wappers. Critical reception of his works was mixed.[2] Walter Shaw Sparrow, who studied under him and considered him a "noted character", wrote of him in his memoirs.[3]
Work titles include:
- The Judgement of Solomon (ca. about 1850), oil on canvas
- 14 Stations, (Church of Notre Dame, Namur)
- Battle of Graveungen (1855);
- Defence of Tournay in 1581
- Visitation of Mary (1862)
- Ballot among the Gypsies
- Battle of Vucht, (Palace of Justice, Ghent )
- Cavalry Attack[2]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (1999). Mallett's Index of Artists: International-biographical, Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present. Peter Smith. p. 400.
- ^ a b John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 171–2. ISBN 9780804605359.
- ^ Walter Shaw Sparrow (1925). Memories of Life and Art Through Sixty Years. John Lane.
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