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5:08 AM
"The Picnic", by James Archer, 1870
(from the Tea and Polite Conversation FB pg)
Emile Claus (Belgian painter) 1849 - 1924
Le Pique-Nique, ca. 1887
oil on canvas
129 x 198 cm.
Royal Collection, Brussels
Emile Claus was born on 27 September 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West-Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys. Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor. Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring.
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