Charles Verlat

(b Antwerp, 24 Nov 1824; d Antwerp, 23 Oct 1890). Belgian painter and teacher. He studied at the Antwerp Academy and was admitted to Ary Scheffer's atelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1850. He discovered Delacroix in the museums and studios of Paris, but he remained Flemish at heart, particularly admiring the colours of Rubens's Medici cycle in the Louvre. With his contemporary, Eug?ne Verboeckhoven, he became the heir to the Flemish tradition of genre painting in which animals were the main protagonists, capturing the subtle colour and texture of fur with great exactitude (e.g. Pig and Ass; Antwerp, Kon. Mus. S. Kst). He remained in Paris until 1868, and from 1869 to 1874 he taught at the Weimar Kunstschule.

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