Edward Woutermaertens

[1] Edward Woutermaertens was born in Kortrijk, Belgium on 15 August 1819, a son of Lodewijk Frans, a goldsmith, and Marie Thérèse Seynaeve.

Among his fellow pupils were the brothers Hendrik and Edmond de Praetere (Pratere), who became well-known artists.

[1] After completing his academic training in 1840, he was a pupil of the animal painter Lodewijk or Louis Robbe for six years.

His works were accepted at various leading official salons, such as Kortrijk in 1841, in Bruges in 1846, in Brussels in 1845, 1848, 1852, 1875, 1878 and 1880, in Paris in 1855, 1866 and 1878 and in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1870.

As he was not always in the habit of signing his paintings or only put his initials, it is not always easy to make firm attributions of his works.