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Agneesens, Edouard(-Joseph-Alexandre)
(b Brussels, 24 Aug 1842; d Uccle, Brabant, 20 Aug 1885). Belgian painter. He initially studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels before entering Jean-François Portaels’s studio in the same city, where he was one of Portaels’s most important pupils. By the age of 18 he had already painted the mature work Torso of an Adolescent (1860; Brussels, Mus. A. Anc.). In 1863 he competed unsuccessfully in the Prix de Rome but he soon established himself with his exhibition of portraits at the Salon of 1866 in Brussels. In 1869 Agneesens went to St Petersburg, where he painted the portraits of various notable figures, including the actor Vasily Vasil’evich Samoilov. He returned to Brussels in 1870, where he settled.
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