Adolphe Bernard (attributed To) - The Soldier's Wife And Son By The Fireside

Adolphe BERNARD (Attributed to)Ghent, 1812 – Ghent, 1890The soldier's wife and her son by the fireOil on canvas46 x 38 cm (61 x 52 cm with the frame)Signed and dated lower left "Bernard / 1839"Very beautiful period frame in carved and gilded woodVery good conditionAdolphe Bernard is a Belgian painter of genre scenes. He was a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1829 to 1832 under Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes and Pieter Van Hanselaere. He then traveled to Rome and won the Grand Prix at the Academy of Saint Luke in 1835. In 1838, he returned to Ghent where he exhibited regularly at the Salon. The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent holds a beautiful painting by him entitled The Robber's Wife Fleeing with Her Child (1834).