1828 - 1908

Born in Ghent in Belgium came to work for Minton between 1864 and 1870 painting landscapes and cattle subjects mainly on earthenware.

He came to Copelands in 1870 and is shown in the Fixing Books on 19th April 1891 painting on cups and saucers Scenes and Aesop's Fables subjects and on 7th July 1871 a dinner service.

A photo of a plate shows his painting of Rotten Row dated 1871. It is on Crown body and signed. It is possible that he went to London but continued painting for Copelands on a freelance basis. In London he must have set up a studio and taught art. He is said to have taught the Royal Princesses.

In 1878 - 1881 his paintings were exhibited in the Royal Academy.

He had two talented daughters:

Mary, who exhibited from 1883 - 1936, a flower painter living at Cambridge Lodge Studios, Linden Gardens, Bayswater.

Exhibits:

6 paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists in Birmingham
3 paintings at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
1 painting at the Manchester Art Gallery
7 paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists
2 paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
2 paintings at the Society

and Alice who was a landscape painter and a miniature portrait painter and teacher

Exhibits:

2 paintings at the Dudley Gallery
1 paintings at the New Dudley Gallery
2 Landscapes paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists

An exhibition piece done for the London Exhibition of 1872 is of fine earthenware and the scene Budapest. The vase is signed but there is no factory mark.