Studio: international art (72.1918)

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"kwannon” kakemono by ISSH1

(Akaioshi sale, Tokyo, 4387 yen—see f. 168)

and also acquired for the Brussels Museum
another of his works—a picture of a primeval
hunter with his dogs. The French Govern-
ment bought for the Lille Museum a pathetic
picture called Prisoners of War. In the
Senate House in Brussels there is a large
triptych of his representing incidents in
Belgian history, and he also painted frescoes
for the grand staircase at the Town Hall, of
an allegorical nature. In later years Count
Jacques de Lalaing took up portrait-painting.
Lifelike and pleasing, with original poses and a
sober tone, his portraits recall the old Flemish
masters. Among others may be mentioned
those of the artist’s venerable mother, the
Dowager Countess de Lalaing (nee Julia Vibart),
Cardinal Mercier, the patriotic Archbishop of
Malines, Count de Merade-Westerloo, Minister

of Foreign Affairs, Baron Lambermont, Countess
G. de Caraman-Chimay, Countess de Merade,
and Miss Katharine Adam. He was equally
well known as a sculptor. An equestrian group
of his graces the entrance to the Bois de la
Cambre. His busts of well-known Belgian
statesmen are many, and he designed and
executed the great memorial statue erected at
the Evere Cemetery in honour of the British
soldiers who fell at Waterloo. This monument
was unveiled by the late Duke of Cambridge,
and Count Jacques de Lalaing was made a
K.C.M.G. He was a member of the Royal
Academy of Belgium and President of the
Commission for the Royal Museums. His
elder brother, the Count de Lalaing, G.C.V.O.,
was for twelve years Belgian Minister at the
Court of St. James’s. P. L.