Charles Van Beveren

Charles van Beveren
Self portrait
Born	Charles van Beveren ca. 1809 Mechelen, First French Empire
Died	ca. 1850
Education	Royal Institute of the Netherlands

Charles van Beveren (c. 1809–1850), was a Belgian artist, who spent much of his life in Amsterdam.

Life

He was born at Mechlin in 1809 and studied art at the academy of his native city and at Antwerp. He settled in Amsterdam in 1830, subsequently visiting Paris, Rome, and other cities of Italy, and distinguished himself as a painter of history, genre, and portraits. He died in Amsterdam in 1850.

In 1850, Van Beveren was elected a correspondent, living in the Netherlands, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works

• 
  Portrait of the sculptor Louis Royer, 1830
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  Carolina Frederic Kerst, wife of Louis Royer, pendant
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  Ecce Homo
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  The duet

His best known of his works are:

• Louis Royer and his wife, pendant marriage portraits now in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
• The Confession of a Sick Girl (in the Pinakothek at Munich).
• Male Figure. A study (in the Rotterdam Museum).
• The Vision of St. Ignatius.
• The Death of St. Anthony of Padua (in the church of Moses and Aaron at Amsterdam, his chef-d'oeuvre).

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Beveren, Charles Van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.