Alfred Elsen (1850 - 1914)

Alfred Elsen

Alfred Elsen is a Belgian landscape painter and etcher. His teachers are Polydore Beaufaux and Edward Dujardin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. On the advice of Charles Verlat, around 1874 he took lessons from François Lamorinière, who became his friend. His landscapes of the surroundings of Antwerp take up the realistic and detailed style of Lamorinière. During his debut at the 1874 Salon, his Autumn View was well received. He exhibited in Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, London and Paris.