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Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans
Biography of Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans ( 1816-1889 )
Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans was a Belgian painter, illustrator and engraver.
He was born in June 1816 in Brussels.
Pierre olivier joseph coomans biography of michael
Student of Pierre de Hasselaere at the Academy of Gand and then of Nicaise de Keyser and of the Baron Wappers at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Anvers, he specialized in history painting and genre scenes.
In 1841, he exhibited « The Fall of Jerusalem by the Crusaders » and achieved great success, as well as with « The Battle of Absalon » in 1842.
Between 1843 and 1845, he was sent by the Queen Louise-Marie of Orleans in Algeria to join the French army in Kabylie.
There, he worked for the general Marechal Thomas-Robert Bugeaud and met the painter Horace Vernet. Coomans brought numerous sketches back from his journey, making his first steps in orientalism. These sketches gave birth to « Arab Women dancing », « Landscape of the province of Constantine » but also « Battle of Atti