Le Mayeur de Merpres, Adrien-Charles |
| (1844 - 1923, Belgian) |
| Brussels, Belgium, 1844 - 1923. Adrien-Charles Louis Leopold Le Mayeur de Merpres was active as a painter and an etcher. Although he depicted some landscapes, views of rivers or surrounding villages, Charles Le Mayeur is principally known as a marine painter. The major part of his works consists of seascapes, painted at the Belgian coast in De Panne, Niewpoort and Ostend. He was a pupil of Isodore Meyers together with Frans Courtens. It was under Meyer’s guidance that he painted his first marine paintings. In Adrien-Charles Le Mayeur’s seascapes, it is clearly visible that he studied the waves and knew hoe to depict it accurately. The whole surface of water in his canvases is filled with a clear structure of waves. The combination with his typical large and wide skies made his art become grandiose. Adrien-Charles Le Mayeur already was famous during his lifetime as the poet of the sea. His refined impressions were born out of an accurate observation between water and sky. From 1877 onwards, Charles Le Mayeur gave more attention to the role of the light. This brought more balance in his works as his seascapes were flooded with light, air and atmosphere. Adrien-Charles Le Mayeur is considered as one of the best Belgian painters of the sea. From his marriage with Louisa Marie Agusta de Bosch, he had two children, one of whom is Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres,who also shared the same passion on painting with his father and went on various journeys before settling in Bali and married Ni Pollok. |
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