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
Hippolyte de la Charlerie
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Hippolyte de la Charlerie was a Belgian painter and illustrator.
"Invasion of the Assembly in 1792"; illustration from La Révolution Française (1862) by M.J.G.D Armengaud