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Verwée, Alfred (Jacques)
(b Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 23 May 1838; d Brussels, 15 Sept 1895). Belgian painter. After training as a land surveyor, he entered the studio of F.-C. Deweirdt (1795–1855) in Brussels, aged 16. His father, Louis Pierre Verwée (1807–77), a provincial painter of romantic genre scenes and himself a pupil of Eugène Verboeckhoven, also advised him. In 1857 Verwée first exhibited at the Brussels Salon, showing an animal painting; throughout his life he continued to paint animal scenes. After meeting such artists as Antoine-Louis Barye, Edouard Manet and the Barbizon painters Théodore Rousseau and Narcisse Diaz in Paris in 1864, his style became increasingly realistic. He returned to Brussels in 1868, where he became a founder-member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, a group of young artists including Louis Dubois, Louis Artan and Edouard Huberti who espoused plein-air painting. Landscape with Cows (1868; The Hague, Rijksmus. Mesdag) is a good example of an early cattle piece painted from nature.
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