Charles Verlat

Charles Verlat
Self-portrait of Charles Verlat, 1865
Born(1824-11-25)25 November 1824
Antwerp, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Died23 October 1890(1890-10-23) (aged 65)
Antwerp, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Known forPainting, art education

Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat[1] (25 November 1824 – 23 October 1890) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter.[2] He also created Orientalist works, genre scenes, including a number of singeries, religious compositions and still lifes.[3]

He was a professor of drawing and director of the Antwerp Academy when Vincent van Gogh spent a brief period as a student at the Academy in 1886. The two men got into arguments about van Gogh's unconventional style of drawing.[4]

  1. ^ Also called: Michel Marie Charles Verlat and Michiel-Karel Verlat
  2. ^ Max Rooses, Oude en nieuwe kunst, pp. 45-99 (in Dutch)
  3. ^ "Charles Verlat". Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  4. ^ Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, Van Gogh: The Life, Random House Publishing Group, 18 October 2011, pp. 448-489