Henri Leys baron

Jan August Hendrik, Baron Leys (18 February 1815 – 26 August 1869), also known as Henri Leys, was a Belgian painter and printmaker, who was a leading representative of the historical or Romantic school and a pioneer of the Realist movement in Belgium. Henri Leys was born and died in Antwerp. He studied under Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (1773-1839) at the Royal Academy of ...