Joseph van Severdonck

Joseph van Severdonck (1819–1905)[1] was a Belgian artist.

Animated harvest scene with horse and dog

He specialized in historical and genre paintings, and studied under Wappers. Critical reception of his works was mixed.[2] Walter Shaw Sparrow, who studied under him and considered him a "noted character", wrote of him in his memoirs.[3]

Work titles include:

  • The Judgement of Solomon (ca. about 1850), Oil on canvas
  • 14 Stations, (Church of Notre Dame, Namur)
  • Battle of Graveungen (1855);
  • Defence of Tournay in 1581
  • Visitation of Mary (1862)
  • Ballot among the Gypsies
  • Battle of Vucht, (Palace of Justice, Ghent )
  • Cavalry Attack[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (1999). Mallett's Index of Artists: International-biographical, Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present. Peter Smith. p. 400.
  2. 1 2 John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 171–2.
  3. ↑ Walter Shaw Sparrow (1925). Memories of Life and Art Through Sixty Years. John Lane.


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