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45. The Story Teller
Artist: Julius Gaspard STARCK, Belgian, (1814 – 1899)
Execution date (approximate): 1865
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lwer right)
Measures: 71 x 86.4 cm.
Description: Young Women listening to a man telling a Story.
Biography
Julius Gaspard Starck was a Belgian painter. He studied under the direction of Francois
Joseph Navez at the Academy of Beaux Arts of Brussels and under Horace Vernet. He painted
scenes of genre. He was fascinated and attracted by the Orient. He visited Constantinople
(Turkey) and accompanied the painter Jacob Jacobs and other Belgian painters such as
Jean Portals and Jean Baptiste Huysmans. He visited the Dardanelles, Rhode and discovered
the streets of Constantinople where he painted the daily life. Then he traveled to Egypt. His
painting are realistic. He belongs to The Painters of the Golden Horn.
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