. A short history of art . ema (18S6-1912), who became a naturalised British subject. Not-withstanding his Classicalism, he had been a pupil of BaronLeys (1815-1869), who aifected a style in which the auster-ity of early German drawings was combined with the rich-ness of old Flemish colouring. In 1830 the Romantic movement spread to Belgium, ap-pearing in the historical pictures of Baron Gustave Wap-pers (1803-1874), and in the morbid and eccentric work ofAntoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-1865). In 1852 Courbets Stonebreakers was shown in Brusselsand the Naturalistic movement followed. The earliest

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. A short history of art . ema (18S6-1912), who became a naturalised British subject. Not-withstanding his Classicalism, he had been a pupil of BaronLeys (1815-1869), who aifected a style in which the auster-ity of early German drawings was combined with the rich-ness of old Flemish colouring. In 1830 the Romantic movement spread to Belgium, ap-pearing in the historical pictures of Baron Gustave Wap-pers (1803-1874), and in the morbid and eccentric work ofAntoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-1865). In 1852 Courbets Stonebreakers was shown in Brusselsand the Naturalistic movement followed. The earliest ex-ponent of it was Charles de Groux (1825-1870), who livedamong the poor and represented in his pictures the bitter-ness of poverty and the gruesome realities of disease anddeath. Meunier (1831- ) Constantin Meunier, sculptor and pamter, took his sub-jects from the colliery and foundry life that centres roundLouvain. A fatalism, as of the inevitableness of the powerof mechanical force to muster to its service the lives of. o X ft

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