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Huberti, Edouard(-Jules-Joseph)
(b Brussels, 6 Jan 1818; d Schaarbeek, nr Brussels, 12 June 1880). Belgian painter. He initially studied architecture at the Antwerp Academie and, subsequently, music. It was only fairly late in his life that he decided to become a painter, with the encouragement of his friend the landscape painter Théodore Fourmois, whose work he had copied. Huberti belongs to the earliest generation of Belgian landscape painters who worked outdoors and attempted to paint what they saw as realistically as possible. He showed works for the first time at the Brussels Salon in 1857, revealing his affinity to his great model, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The influence of Corot and other Barbizon painters on his work became stronger over the years. In 1868 Huberti was a founder-member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, a group of innovative young painters, principally of landscape, who regarded nature as their only master. Alfred Jacques Verwée, Louis Artan and Louis Dubois were also members.
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