Marguerite Verboeckhoven

Marguerite Verboeckhoven (14 July 1865 – 8 August 1949) was a Belgian painter known for her seascapes.

Life[]

Verboeckhoven was born in Schaerbeek in 1865.^[1] She was the daughter of the publisher Louis-Hippolyte Verboeckhoven and Rosalie-Françoise Pierard, and the granddaughter of the animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven^[2] and great-granddaughter of the sculptor .

Marguerite Verboeckhoven Coastal landscape^[3]

She was educated in a wealthy and cultural environment. She received her artistic education at Ernest Blanc-Garin, who had specially opened a workshop for women and girls. Afterwards she became a teacher at the Ernest Blanc-Garin's workshop. She met artists such as Edwin Ganz , Lucien Wollès and Henri Evenepoel there . She specialised in trying to capture the subtle variations of colour seen at the sea shore.^[2]

Like many artists including Ernest Blanc-Garin, she lived in Knocke in the 1880s and 1890s.

In 1888, she was co-founder of the Cercle des Femmes Peintres in Brussels. Other members were Berthe Art, , Marguerite Dielman, Marie Heijermans, Alice Ronner, Rosa Venneman and Emma Verwée. She organized four exhibitions for the artists circle in 1888, 1890, 1891 and 1893 .

She lived in Brussels, rue de Robiano 28, rue Vifquin 41, and later chaussée de Wavre 249. She exhibited 40 paintings in Brussels in 1940.^[4]

Verboeckhoven died in Ixelles in 1949.

Her painting "Coastal Landscape" sold for over $1000 in 2005.^[3]

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