Auguste Danse

While still very young, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied painting with François-Joseph Navez.

In 1851, he received a major commission from the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts to produce portraits for a series of biographies.

He lost the latter position when the American Civil War made cotton difficult to obtain.

In 1871, he became a drawing teacher at the art academy in Mons[1] He retained that position until his retirement in 1897, and helped create an engraving school there in 1882.

Beginning in the early twentieth-century, his attention turned more to painting; primarily maritime scenes and landscapes.