The Merry-go-round By Nestor Cambier (1879-1957) - Oil On Cardboard - Impressionism

The merry-go-round. Oil on cardboard, signed in the lower left corner and mounted in a gilded wooden frame. Dimensions: Frame: 21 x 16 cm. Subject: 18.2 x 13.4 cm. Beautiful subject by Nestor Cambier (1879-1957) representing a woman and her child near a merry-go-round. This painter, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, has sometimes been compared to the American Impressionist painter, John Singer Sargent, for the finesse and execution of his portraits. Cambier also traveled and lived in the United States between 1906 and 1909. He won the John Wanamaker Prize there in 1907 in Philadelphia. After leaving Belgium in 1914, at the time of the declaration of the First World War, he took refuge in Birmingham, England, where he spent 19 years. In 1923 he became a member of the North British Academy of Arts.