Gérard Jozef Adrian VAN LUPPEN (1834-1891) - Lot 56

Gérard Jozef Adrian VAN LUPPEN (1834-1891) "Oil on panel. Signed and located on the back. 1877. 34 x 57 cm. Note: A student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1846, Joseph Van Luppen trained with Jacob Jacobs and then François Lamorinière, before joining the Barbizon School in Paris, where he worked under Théodore Rousseau. His study trips took him to Upper Bavaria, the Tyrol, Lombardy, Switzerland, the Ardennes and the Kempen, where he worked with André Plumot, Jacques Rosseels and Isidore Meyers. Awarded a gold medal at the 1872 Brussels Salon for Le Matin, he also exhibited at the Universal Exhibitions in Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876) and Antwerp (1885). A landscape teacher at the Antwerp Academy from 1880, his pupils included Léon Delderenne, Robert Crannell Minor and Henry Rul. In the same year, he helped found the Vereeniging der Antwerpsche etsers, an association of Antwerp aquafortists.