Ernest Slingeneyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian painter and politician
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Place of Birth: Lochristi, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Ernest Slingeneyer
- Ernest Slingeneyer, Ernest Isidore Hubert Slingeneyer or Ernst Slingeneyer (Lochristi, 28 May 1820 – Brussels, 27 April 1894) was a Belgian painter of history paintings, portraits, genre scenes and the occasional landscape.
- Slingeneyer is regarded as one of the last representatives of Romanticism in Belgian painting and of Academism in Romanticism in Belgian art.
- In his later career he was one of the leading representatives of Orientalism in Belgium.
- An excellent portraitist, Slingeneyer made portraits of historical figures as well as of well-known figures from his time.
- Slingeneyer was also a politician and was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Independists of Brussels, a coalition of personalities bound by their opposition to the Radicalist liberals.
- As a politician he promoted Academic art and agitated against new artistic currents as promoted by, amongst others, the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
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