Edouard Huberti (1818 - 1880)

Edouard Huberti

Edouard Jules Joseph Huberti was a Belgian landscape painter and watercolorist. He taught himself how to paint, produced his first simple oils on cardboard in 1837, and had a small exhibit in Brussels in 1857, but it was 1860 before he began working as a full-time artist, having been attracted to the profession by the growing public acceptance of realistic landscapes, painted en plein aire. To improve his skills, he worked with Théodore Fourmois, who took him to paint in the woods around Tervuren. He soon became involved in the artists' colony there, attending discussions at the local tavern, which led to the founding of the School van Tervuren; one of several groups devoted to landscapes that developed in Belgium and the Netherlands around that time. Unlike most of his peers, he preferred to paint wide open, sometimes monotonous plains, with clouds and perhaps one lonely tree. In 1868, he became one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, and was also a member of the Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes.

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