"work In The Fields" Heymans Adriaan Josef (1839–1921)

HEYMANS, Adriaan Josef

Born June 11, 1839, in Antwerp. Died in December 1921 in Schaerbeek (Brussels).

Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, and seascapes; watercolorist. Impressionist style.

He was a student at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. In Belgium, he became the leading figure of the so-called Kalmthout School, also known as the “Gris” School, and later of the Termonde School. He was one of the founding members of the Free Society of Fine Arts of Brussels, the Group of XX, L’Art Contemporain, and the Vie et Lumière Artistic Society. During a stay in Paris from 1855 to 1858, he was influenced by the painters Rousseau, Corot, Daubigny, Millet, and more generally by the Barbizon School, whose theories he promoted in Belgium.

In the 1860s, he rapidly evolved toward an independent form of Pre-Impressionism that led him to a highly personal style of Luminism.
He created landscape paintings whose technique followed the principle of the divided brushstroke, using hatching and small juxtaposed lines in colors of an almost white luminosity with broken tones, particularly seeking to capture the fleeting impressions of the union of sky and sea.
He also painted sheep in Campine landscapes.

Museums: ANTWERP: The Brittany Collection - BRUSSELS: A Corner of Heather - Spring - Moonlit Evening -
GHENT: Sunset on the Heath - LIÈGE: In the Campine Heatherlands.

Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Canvas very well restored; cleaning performed
The original label remains on the back of the stretcher: 
Nova Auction House in Brussels.
Annotated in pen: “Estate of Hazledine, the artist’s son-in-law.”

Size: 31 x 41 cm
With frame: 47 x 56 cm