 Joseph Coomans is primarily known as Pierre Oliver Joseph Coomans
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Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans was born in Brussels in 1816. He was the pupil of Van Hasselaere at Ghent, of De Keyser at Antwerp, and of Baron Wappers. He spent several years in Africa, where he traveled with the French army in order to study the country and make sketches. The result of this experience was shown in his paintings of "The Deluge,’’"Landscape in the Province of Constantine," "Emigration of Arab Tribes," and others. Coomans first exhibited his work in Paris in 1857. He then went to (showing 500 of 954 characters). |
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