Liévin De Winne

Liévin De Winne (Ghent, 24 January 1821 - Brussels, 13 May 1880) was a Belgian portrait painter who painted the official portrait of Leopold I on which the first postage stamp of Belgium was based.

Portrait of a young girl with a coral necklace. Oil on canvas.
The first stamp of Belgium (1849), known as the Epaulettes, was based on the official portrait of King Leopold I by De Winne.

De Winne was a pupil of Félix De Vigne and Henri van der Haert at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. In 1850 he received a grant from the government of Belgium that enabled him to travel to Paris and from 1852 to 1855 he was able to share a studio with Jules Breton who subsequently wrote De Winne's biography. From 1861, De Winne resumed residency in Belgium where he established himself as a portrait painter to high society. His direct and insightful style won him many eminent clients and was a decisive break with the more romantic style of earlier Belgian portrait painting.[1]

Selected works
  • Separation of Ruth and Naomi, 1853.
  • St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1854.
  • The holy women at the tomb of Christ, 1858.
  • Emile Breton in uniform of captain of the guard furniture of the Pas-de-Calais, Palace of Fine Arts, Lille.
  • Count and Countess of Flanders.
  • Leopold I, 1860, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
  • P. Verhaegen, 1863.
  • L. Roelandt, 1864.
  • The American diplomat J.S. Sanford, 1878. Presented at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

References
  1. "De Winne, Liévin" by Alain Jacobs in Grove Art Online, oxfordartonline.com, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 March 2014.


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