Brussels Salon
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The Brussels Salon was a periodic exhibition of works by living artists that was held in Brussels between 1811 and 1914. It was primarily aimed at painters, but sculptors, draughtsmen, engravers and a
Award Ceremony at the first Salon of 1811, gouache by Marie de Latour
The Salon of 1830 in the Palace of Charles of Lorraine, rendered by Jean-Baptiste Madou
Temporary pavilion of the Salon of 1863, Place du Trône/Troonplein
Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
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The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts was an organization formed in 1868 by Belgian artists to react against academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom. Based in Brussels, the society
The Members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts by Edmond Lambrichs : from left to right, sitting are Huberti, Boudin, Degroux, Van Camp, Bouré, Verwée, C. Meunier, Dubois (holding copies of L'Art libre and L'Art Universel); standing, Lambrichs, Artan, Rops, Raeymaeckers, J.B. Meunier, Smits, Baron, De la Charlerie
The Heights of Beez (1861) by Louis Dubois; landscape painters were prominent among the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Magpie by society member Eugène Smits