André Plumot (1829 - 1906)

André Plumot

André Ploumo was a Belgian realist painter who specialized in genre scenes, antique interiors, landscapes and images of poultry. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and worked for some time in the workshop of Nicaise de Keyser on the Ossenmarkt. At the age of 20, he completed his studies, left the Academy and mainly painted paintings with interiors and figures, inspired by the painting of the 16th-17th centuries. A lucrative genre practiced by many Antwerp artists at the time. In the 1860s, Plumo painted mainly historical genre scenes. In the 1860s he met Jacques Rossels, Isidore Meyers and other landscape painters in Kalmthout. He traveled through the Ardennes, where he painted the Meuse valley and forest scenes several times. Due to his frequent stay in Kalmtaut and its environs, he began to show an increasing interest in nature and animals, he painted pictures depicting livestock and birds. In 1872 he was awarded a diploma and a medal at an exhibition in London.