Camille van Camp (1834 - 1891)

Camille van Camp

Camille van Camp was a Belgian portrait and landscape painter, watercolorist, and engraver. From 1848 to 1853, he studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelle. He paid a visit to Florence in 1857, where he copied the Old Masters at the Uffizi. Two years later, he did the same thing at the Louvre in Paris. In 1863, he and his friend, Hippolyte Boulenger, went to Tervuren, the site of a flourishing artists' colony. There, he participated in creating a style of landscape painting that came to be known as the School van Tervuren. Five years later, he was one of the co-founders of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the illustrators for the first edition of The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel, by Charles De Coster.

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