International studio (17.1902)

Henri Cassiers

extraordinary fidelity with which he has stuck to
that medium throughout his art career.

Every day in the
summer, directly his
compulsory work as
a pupil in an archi-
tect’s office was done,
he used to rush to
the station, where he
met his friend, the
artist Stacquet (who
is now Director of
the Belgian Society
of Painters in Water-
Colour), and went
with him to some
suburban locality,
where the two would
deftly wash in a few
skilful notes of the
delicate but evan-
escent effects of
colour observed by them. In the winter, on the
other hand, young Cassiers would go every evening
to draw at the Free Academy, known as that ot

the Patte de Dindon, or the “ Turkey’s Foot,” so
called after the sign of the old inn in which the

classes were held,
still to be seen, with
its sumptuously deco-
rated front loaded
with ornamental
sculptures and gild
ing, on the Grande
Place of Brussels.
The building be-
longed to the Com-
munal authorities,
who not only autho-
rised the meeting in
it of the Free Aca-
demy, but also sup-
plied that institution
with firing and light-
ing for the three
winter months. The
club fees of the mem-
bers of the Free Academy sufficed to pay for the
necessary models. Here used to meet on equal
terms professional and amateur artists, all friends

“DUTCH MILKMAIDS” BY H. CASSIERS

f Published by MM. Dietrich et Cie., Brussels)

“ DORDRECHT

BY H. CASSIERS

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