Alphonse Asselbergs

Alphonse Asselbergs (19 June,1839 – 10 April, 1916) was a Belgian painter, primarily of landscapes and forest scenes.

He became interested in art after a chance meeting with the landscape painter, Edouard Huberti, and created his first paintings, of the Kempen, in 1861.

In the summer of 1866, he took an extended trip with Huberti, to the artists' colony at Anseremme, where he was first exposed to the concept of painting en plein aire.

The family business was closed in 1866 and, the following year, he joined the painters at the artists' colony in Tervuren, where he stayed regularly until 1871.

After returning from Algeria, he lived near the artists' colony in Genk, and made occasional excursions to the forests of Fontainebleau.