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Beautiful oil painting by the Belgian artist Willem Geets (1838 - 1919)
Size: 53 x 39 cm - Gilded frame with mouldings - Signed
Willem Geets was born on 20 January 1838 in Mechelen. He studied at the Academy of Mechelen and the Academy of Antwerp and continued his studies with Nicaise De Keyser.
He was appointed director of the Mechelen Academy. In 1877 he won a medal in Ghent and in 1893 an honourable mention in Paris.
In addition to his paintings, Geets produced tapestry cartoons for the Braquenié factory, including those for the Guilds tapestries in the Gothic Hall of the Brussels City Hall (these cartoons, for which members of the Braquenié family posed, are on display in the Great Hall of the Brussels Museum of Art and History) and the tapestries for the Senate in Brussels.
Willem Geets died in 1919 in his home town.
Some of his works are on display in the Hof van Busleyden museum in Mechelen, Belgium.
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