Jean-baptiste Degreef (1852-1894).

Old wooden frame and patinated stucco, gray fabric mat. Frame dimensions 41 x 51 cm.
Dimensions of the painting 28 x 39 cm. Monogram JB.
Jean-Baptiste Degreef, born in 1852 in Brussels and died in 1894 in Auderghem (Brussels), is a Belgian painter.
Jean-Baptiste Degreef began as a painter-decorator. He attended the free workshop L'Effort and those of Joseph van Severdonck and Paul Lauters at the Academy of Brussels. His art is influenced by Impressionism. He spent some time in the Netherlands, on the banks of the Scheldt and the Meuse. It attaches itself to the subtle and fleeting aspects of light. His touch is frank and spontaneous. He discovered the Rouge-Cloître (Bruxelles -Auderghem) in the 1870s, in the company of his elder Hippolyte Boulenger (1837-1874), founder of the School of Tervueren. The strength of his temperament and the sensitivity of his paintings influenced young artists such as Alfred Bastien (1873-1955) or Joseph François (1875-1950).
Works in the Museums of Brussels, Ixelles, Antwerp.