Jan van Beers (artist)
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Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" van Beers was a Belgian painter and illustrator, son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the young
Van Beers in his studio, Paris, late 1880s
An 1891 Vanity Fair caricature of Van Beers titled "The Modern Wiertz"
A balcony, undated
The letter, 1885
Orientalism
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In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist paint
Unknown Venetian artist, The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus, 1511, Louvre. The deer with antlers in the foreground is not known ever to have existed in the wild in Syria.
Eugène Delacroix, The Women of Algiers, 1834, the Louvre, Paris
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, c. 1879. Clark Art Institute.
Professor G. A. Wallin (1811–1852), a Finnish explorer and orientalist, who was remembered for being one of the first Europeans to study and travel in the Middle East during the 1840s. Portrait of Wallin by R. W. Ekman, 1853.