About Edouard Agneessens
Lived 1842 – 1885 (aged 42). Edouard Agneessens was a Belgian painter.
Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a Belgian painter born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Agneessens later built up quite a career in Saint-Petersburg, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder.
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painter (1842-1885)
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Edouard Agneessens was born on 24 August 1842 in Brussels.
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Edouard Agneessens died on 20 August 1885 in Uccle.
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