Gustave Wappers
(1803–1874) belgisk målare
Gustave Wappers (Flanders/Belgium, 1803–1874) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Gustave Wappers belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Gustave Wappers was born in Antwerp and died in Paris. Gustave Wappers trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts. The teachers included Mattheus Ignatius van Bree and Willem Jacob Herreyns. Gustave Wappers worked in Paris, Antwerp, and Paris. Wikidata associates Gustave Wappers with Romanticism. Gustave Wappers became a member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Order of Leopold, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Saxe-Ernestine, and Commander of the Order of Christ. The students included Jules Breton, Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, August Weckesser, and Jean Joseph Dehoy.
One of the best-known works is ‘Anthony van Dyck in Love with his Model’. The catalogue has 19 works by Gustave Wappers with free images. The dated works span the years 1827–1874. Works by Gustave Wappers are held by several collections, among them Kungliga museet för sköna konster i Belgien, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Musea Brugge, and Museum De Lakenhal. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Hermann Stilke, Jacob Abels, Robert Scott Lauder, Francis Grant, and Johann Wilhelm Preyer.