Louis-Charles Verwee

[1] Louis-Charles Verwée was born in Brussels as the son of the prominent animal and landscape painter Louis-Pierre Verwee, originally from Kortrijk.

These usually involve young women or children engaged in some mundane activity such as pressing a lemon, reading a book or rummaging through a drawer.

[2] He painted portraits mainly of women in a style which is close to that of Belgian painters Alfred Stevens, Gustave Léonard de Jonghe and Charles Baugniet.

He is regarded as representing the modern trend in the Classical school together with the Belgian painter Charles Hermans.

Belgian king Leopold II acquired his work entitled Diplomacy, which is still in the royal collections.