Charles Van Havermaet

He was a member of the artist group De Scalden founded in 1889 in Antwerp with the medallist Jules Baetes taking on the role of the chairman.

[5] While in Antwerp Academy British cartoonist, watercolourist, illustrator, and poster designer John Hassall studied with him.

[6] He exhibited at the 35th exhibition at the Casino in Ghent in 1892 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Koninklijke Maatschappij ter Aanmoediging van de de Schone Kunsten (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts) in Ghent, at the Exposition d'Anvers in 1898 and at the Salon Triennal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1903.

[9] Ada Susan Tatham (Molyneux), the founder of an Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal (now in South Africa) collected in 1904 funds from women and children of Natal to commission a copy of Franz Xaver Winterhalter's state coronation portrait of Queen Victoria in St James's Palace, London.

King Edward VII granted approval for him to spend six weeks copying the portrait on site.

In 1995 the painting was moved to the main stairwell of the Tatham Art Gallery located in the Old Supreme Court Building in Pietermaritzburg.