Barthelemy VIEILLEVOYE (1798 - 1855) - Lot 2

Barthelemy VIEILLEVOYE (1798 - 1855) "Portrait of Julie Palmyre VAN MARCKE-ROBERT - 1843", Oil on canvas, 78 x 70 cm. Not framed. Note: Julie Palmyre VAN MARCKE-ROBERT was a painter of fruit and flowers. She was the daughter of Jean-François Robert, painter and director of the Sèvres porcelain factory. Her son is the painter Emile Van Marcke de Lummen. Born in Paris, she moved to Liège in 1827 on her marriage. Barthelemy Vieillevoye was originally from Verviers, and studied in Antwerp and Amsterdam before settling in Liège, where he became Director of the Académie des Beaux-arts de Liège. Biblio: Jacques Goijen, Dictionnaires des peintres de l'école liégoise du paysage, Liège 2022, p.585.