Eugène Smits

Eugène Smits (22 May 1826, Antwerp - 4 December 1912, Brussels) was a Belgian portrait painter.

He studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with François-Joseph Navez.

From 1851 to 1852, he lived in Paris, where he made the professional acquaintance of Jean-François Millet, Eugène Isabey, and the brothers Joseph and Alfred Stevens.

In 1902, he was elected a member of his alma mater, the Académie royale.

He also wrote a collection of memories and reflections, Les pensées d’Eugène Smits, which was published posthumously in 1913, with illustrations by Fernand Khnopff.