Florent Joseph Marie Willems

Florent Joseph Marie Willems (8 January 1823 – 23 October 1905) was a Belgian painter. He made his debut at the Brussels Salon in 1842 with A Music Party and an Interior of a 17th-century Guard-room in the style of Gerard ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu. Soon afterwards he settled in Paris, where his pictures enjoyed considerable popularity under the Second French Empire.