Marguerite Verboeckhoven

Marguerite Verboeckhoven (July 14, 1865 – August 8, 1949) was a Belgian painter known for her seascapes.

Marguerite Verboeckhoven
BornJuly 14, 1865
Schaerbeek
DiedAugust 8, 1949
Ixelles
NationalityBelgium
Occupationpainter

Life

Verboeckhoven was born in Schaerbeek in 1865.[1] She was the daughter of the publisher Louis-Hippolyte Verboeckhoven and Rosalie-Françoise Pierard, and the granddaughter of the animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven[2] and great-granddaughter of the sculptor Barthélémy Verboeckhoven.

Marguerite Verboeckhoven Coastal landscape[3]

She was educated in a wealthy and cultural environment. She received her artistic education at Ernest Blanc-Garin, who had specially opened a workshop for women and girls. Afterwards she became a teacher at the Ernest Blanc-Garin's workshop. She met artists such as Edwin Ganz , Lucien Wollès and Henri Evenepoel there . She specialised in trying to capture the subtle variations of colour seen at the sea shore.[2]

Like many artists including Ernest Blanc-Garin, she lived in Knocke in the 1880s and 1890s.

In 1888, she was co-founder of the Cercle des Femmes Peintres in Brussels. Other members were Berthe Art , Marie De Bièvre , Marguerite Dielman , M. Heyermans, Alice Ronner , Rosa Venneman and Emma Verwée . She organized four exhibitions for the artists circle in 1888 , 1890, 1891 and 1893 .

She lived in Brussels, rue de Robiano 28, rue Vifquin 41, and later chaussée de Wavre 249. She exhibited 40 paintings in Brussels in 1940.[4]

Verboeckhoven died in Ixelles in 1949.

Her painting "Coastal Landscape" sold for over $1000 in 2005.[3]

gollark: I wonder where The Chaotician gets the extra 20 generations from. Most of the dragons at the edge are (near)-CB.
gollark: Or 10.
gollark: The stupid lineage viewer only goes back 11 generations...
gollark: It has gold ancestry, crazy inbreeding at some point, a few prizes, and who *knows* the ancestry beyond that?
gollark: I was just suggesting that I'd do that to make a really messy one.

References
  1. "Ontdek schilder Marguerite Verboeckhoven". rkd.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  2. Sparrow, Walter Shaw (2018-03-01). Women Painters of the World. B&R Samizdat Express. ISBN 978-1-4554-4593-6.
  3. "Marguerite Verboeckhoven (1865-1949) , Coastal landscape". www.christies.com. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  4. "Verboeckhoven, Marguerite : Benezit Dictionary of Artists - oi". oxfordindex.oup.com. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00189620. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
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