Oil on canvas
130cm x 92cm
signed lower left: Jef Lambeaux
dated '2 (1902)
'Village view' Woluwe St. Etienne (Sint Stevens Woluwe)
Museal artwork in authentic frame (160cm x 125cm)
Lambeaux was born in Antwerp Belgium, on 14 January 1852. He studied at the Antwerp Academy of Arts, and was a pupil of Jean Geefs. He was part of a group of young artists, the "Van Beers clique", led by Jan Van Beers. This group included the artists Piet Verhaert(1852–1908) and Alexander Struys (1852–1941). They were well known for their mischievous and eccentric behaviour, including walking around Antwerp dressed in historic costumes.
Notable works include hisBrabo fountain in Antwerp (1886), Robbing the Eagles Eyrie (1890), Drunkenness (1893), The Triumph of Woman, The Bitten Faun (which created a great stir at the Exposition Universelle at Liege in 1905), and The Human Passions, a colossal marble bas-relief, elaborated from a sketch exhibited in 1889. Of his numerous busts may be mentioned those of Hendrik Conscience, and of Charles Buls, the burgomaster of Brussels.