About Rémy Cogghe
Lived 1854 – 1935 (aged 80). Rémy Cogghe was a Belgian painter.
Rémy Cogghe, originally spelled Rémi Coghe ( 31 October 1854 – 2 April 1935) was a Belgian-born painter, residing in France.
Biography He was born in Mouscron. When he was thirteen, his father moved the family to France to take a job as a spinner in the industrial town of Roubaix.
Cogghe spent the next five years travelling extensively throughout Spain and Italy, with visits to Algeria and Tunisia, painting prolifically all the way. In 1885, he returned to Roubaix and moved in with his parents. By 1893, he had become successful enough that he could afford to build his own house. He specialized in portraits, but also painted scenes from the daily life of Roubaix and the surrounding region. Between 1879 and 1926, he exhibited in the foreign section at the Salon twenty-nine times.
Cogghe died on 2 April 1935 in Roubaix.
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Belgian painter (1854-1935)
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Rémy Cogghe was born on 31 October 1854 in Mouscron.
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Rémy Cogghe died on 2 April 1935 in Roubaix.
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Rémy Cogghe was a painter.
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Rémy Cogghe was Belgian.
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