Baron Jan August Hendrik Leys

{"Id":2714,"Name":"Baron Jan August Hendrik Leys","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELEYS, HENDRIK, BARON (1815-1869),\u003C/strong\u003E Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp on the 18th of February, 1815. He studied under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1301\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EWappers\u003C/a\u003E [1803-1874] at the Antwerp Academy. In 1833 he painted \u003Cu\u003ECombat d\u0027un grenadier et d\u0027un cosaque\u003C/u\u003E, and in the following year \u003Cu\u003ECombat de Bourguignons et Flamands\u003C/u\u003E. In 1835 he went to Paris where he was influenced by the Romantic movement. Examples of this period of his painting are \u003Cu\u003EMassacre des chevins de Louvain\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EManage flamand\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003ELe Roi des arbaltriers\u003C/u\u003E and other works. Leys was an imitative painter in whose works may rapidly be detected the schools which he had been studying before he painted them. Thus after his visit to Holland in 1839 he reproduced many of the characteristics of the Dutch genre painters in such works as \u003Cu\u003EFranz Floris se rendant a une fete\u003C/u\u003E (1845) and \u003Cu\u003EService divin en Hollande\u003C/u\u003E (1850). So too the methods of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2889\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EQuentin Metsys\u003C/a\u003E [1466-1530] impressed themselves upon him after he had travelled in Germany in 1852. In 1862 Leys was created a baron. At the time of his death, which occurred in August 1869, he was engaged in decorating with fresco the large hall of the Antwerp Hotel de Ville.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003EEntry on the artist in the 1911 edition of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://46.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LE/LEYS_HENDRIK_BARON.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEncyclopedia Britannica\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":true,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":11}