Live auction - Lot 179
Vibrant portrait of a liberal and Freemason
Pierre Lys.
Liège, 1838
Hammer price: €
900
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
Oil on canvas, 120,8 x 99,8 cm, signed, dated, located (paper tape on edges, some parts strengthened).
Large and vibrant portrait by Barthélemy Vieillevoye (1798-1855), the first director of the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège. Pierre Lys (1779-1849) was a notary in Verviers, a founding member of the Masonic lodge Les Philadelphes, and a liberal member of parliament from 1839 to 1848.
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