Studio: international art (52.1911)

Studio- Talk

breakdown
which over-
took him
some twelve
years before
his death. In
July, 1895,
at the very
prime of
manhood, he
had a stroke
after paint-
ing in the hot
sun all day.
With that his
career as a
painter came
to an end, for
till the day
of his death
in 1908 he
remained a
helpless in-
valid.

"the quiet hour" (tempera) (Aquarellisten-Klub, Vienna) by hans ranzoni A. W. S.

culum and took every opportunity to resort to | UDAPEST.—During recent years Dr.
the open fields to pursue their study unknown to I -f Gabriel de Terey lias been eagerly

their instructor. J engaged in securing works by the

jreat Spanish and other old masters
On leaving the Academy, Verstraete ex- to add to the collection in the Gallery of Fine
perienced great hardships and had to resort to Arts here, of which he is the Director. In 1908,
all sorts of ingenious devices to get a living, the first Velasquez to come to Hungary was
such as hawking round
pictures among sailors,
who bought them for a . --■

few shillings apiece. He

began to exhibit regularly L . .. . : , '

at Antwerp in 1877, but

his first real success did . , 'w

not come till 1883, when
he gained a gold medal
there and honourable
mention at the great
Paris exhibition.

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pleiii-airiste to the core,

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come of his direct con-
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much to do with the "a summer night" (Aquarellisten-Klub, Vienna) by hugo darnaut

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