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49. The SENTINEL

Artist: François M.Théophile LYBAERT, Belgian, (1848 – 1927)
Execution date (approximate): 1901
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower right)
Measures: 50.5 x 37 cm.
Description: An extremely fine and rare panting of Lybaert. A Guard feeding the pigeons
on the Palace door.

Exhibitions
Exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1901 under no. 998, see The Complete
Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, by Algernon
Graves F.S.A. vol. V, p.119 (Exhibitors).

Biography
François Lybaert was a Belgian painter who also created sculptures. He studied in Gand
(Belgium) at the academy of Fine Arts with the painter Theodore Caneel, and then with
Paul and Felix De Vigne. He travelled to Paris in 1878, and studied with Jean Léon Gérome,
who exercised a great influence on his art and was the source of inspiration to his main
subjects of Orientalism. He was a painter of genre, of Historical scenes, and later in his life
he got attached to religious subjects and worked for some churches. He painted Medieval
scenes inspired by Memling and Van Der Weyden, and was named The Modern Gothic. He
was influenced also by Dürer. He was very precise in all his paintings, a precision that he
learned during his stay with Gérome in Paris.

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