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(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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Michel Marie Charles Verlat (November 25, 1824October 23, 1890) was a Belgian painter from Antwerp. He was a pupil of Nicaise de Keyser, and studied at the Antwerp Academy.

In 1842 appeared his first important picture, Pippin the Short Killing a Lion. About 1849 he went to Paris, where he worked under Ary Scheffer. In 1855 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle at Paris with his Tiger Attacking a Herd of Buffaloes, and in 1858 exhibited Le Coup de collier (now in the Antwerp Gallery) at the Paris Salon.

In 1866 he was appointed director of the Academy at Weimar, where he painted some fine portraits, notably those of the grand-duchess of Saxony and of the musician Liszt. Soon after his return to Antwerp in 1875 he visited Palestine, and brought back a large number of interesting pictures, including Vox Populi (Antwerp Gallery), The Tomb of Jesus, and The Flight into Egypt. In 1885 he was appointed director of the Antwerp Academy.

Other important works by Verlat are the panoramas of the battle of Waterloo and the treaty of San Stefano, Christ between the Two Thieves, Defending the Flock (Antwerp Gallery), Oxen Ploughing in Palestine (Antwerp Gallery), Godfrey of Bouillon at the Siege of Jerusalem (Brussels Gallery), and Sheep-Dog Defending the Flock (Brussels Gallery). He executed a series of original etchings, and published in 1879 a book on the Antwerp Academy. He died at Antwerp.

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