Marguerite Verboeckhoven

Verboeckhoven was born in Schaerbeek in 1865.[1] She was the daughter of the publisher Louis-Hippolyte Verboeckhoven and Rosalie-Françoise Pierard, and the granddaughter of the animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven[2] and great-granddaughter of the sculptor Barthélémy Verboeckhoven.

Marguerite Verboeckhoven Coastal landscape[3]

She was educated in a wealthy and cultural environment. She received her artistic education at Ernest Blanc-Garin, who had specially opened a workshop for women and girls. Afterwards she became a teacher at the Ernest Blanc-Garin's workshop. She met artists such as Edwin Ganz , Lucien Wollès and Henri Evenepoel there . She specialised in trying to capture the subtle variations of colour seen at the sea shore.[2]

Like many artists including Ernest Blanc-Garin, she lived in Knocke in the 1880s and 1890s.

In 1888, she was co-founder of the Cercle des Femmes Peintres in Brussels. Other members were Berthe Art , Marie De Bièvre , Marguerite Dielman , M. Heyermans, Alice Ronner , Rosa Venneman and Emma Verwée . She organized four exhibitions for the artists circle in 1888 , 1890, 1891 and 1893 .

She lived in Brussels, rue de Robiano 28, rue Vifquin 41, and later chaussée de Wavre 249. She exhibited 40 paintings in Brussels in 1940.[4]

Verboeckhoven died in Ixelles in 1949.

Her painting "Coastal Landscape" sold for over $1000 in 2005.[3]