THEOPHILE MARIE FRANCOIS LYBAERT (1848-1927)

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Oil on panel

Signed and dated 1883

21.50 cm wide   27.00 cm high

8.46 inches wide  10.63 inches high

Théophile Marie Francoise Lybaert was born in Ghent where he initially studied at the Beaux-Art Academy under the Belgian history painter Theodor Cannell. In 1878 he went to Paris to study under the great Orientalist artist Jean-Léon Gérôme and on his return to Ghent he first became a noted painter of Oriental subjects. He later concentrated on paintings with subjects derived from religious and Flemish history.

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