Eugène Wolters (1844 - 1905)

Eugène Wolters

Jacques Eugène Hubert Wolters was a Dutch-Belgian painter. Received his first painting lessons at the age of 10. Left for Antwerp in 1864, pupil of Polydore Beaufaux, Joseph van Lerius and Jakob Albert Jacobs. In 1869 he undertook a one-year study trip to Germany (Moyland Castle near Kleve). He then studied for three years with the Antwerp landscape painter François Lamorinière. He then took advice from Henri Jacques Bource and, after painting landscapes for the first time, turned to seascapes. In 1894 he was naturalized as a Belgian. He took part in the exhibitions in The Hague in 1878, Rotterdam in 1879 and 1882 and Maastricht in 1890.