About Diana Coomans
Lived 1861 – 1952 (aged 90). Diana Coomans was a Belgian painter.
Diana Coomans (16 August 1861 – 18 June 1952) was a Belgian painter.
Coomans was born in Paris as the daughter of the painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans (1816–1889) and Adélaïde Lacroix (1838–1884). Her sister Heva Coomans and her brother Oscar-Jean Coomans (1848–1884) were also painters. Like her father and sister, she specialized in romantic portrayals of the original inhabitants of Pompei before the eruption of Vesuvius devastated life there. Her 1885 work In the Gynaeceum was included in the book Women Painters of the World.
Coomans died in New York City.
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Who was Diana Coomans?
Belgian painter (1861–1952)
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Diana Coomans was born on 16 August 1861 in Paris.
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Diana Coomans died on 18 June 1952 in New York City.
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Diana Coomans was a painter.
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Diana Coomans was Belgian.
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