Camille van Camp

Camille van Camp (3 June 1834, Tongeren – 16 November 1891, Montreux) was a Belgian portrait and landscape painter, watercolorist, and engraver.

In 1863, he and his friend, Hippolyte Boulenger, went to Tervuren, the site of a flourishing artists' colony.

There, he participated in creating a style of landscape painting that came to be known as the School van Tervuren [nl].

He was one of the illustrators for the first edition of The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel, by Charles De Coster.

Corrections were made for a second edition in 1869, but the work gained little attention until the 1920s, when new illustrations were created.

Camille Van Camp : A Mother's Love
Camille Van Camp : The patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Belgian independence, 16 August 1880 , oil on canvas, 1890, Belgian Parlement.