Painting Detail
Battle at SeneffeArtist: Nicaise de Keyser
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 70x100 cm
Date: 1850
Genre: Battle, History
Source: Museum of the Academy of Arts, 1922
Nicaise de Keyser (alternative first names: Nicaas, Nikaas of Nicasius) (26 August 1813 Zandvliet - 17 July 1887 Antwerp) was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting.
He received his painting tuition at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts under Jozef Jacobs and Mattheus Ignatius van Bree. After 1835 he made many travels including to England and Scotland, Paris and Italy. He married the genre painter Isabella Telghuys on 6 October 1840. In 1846, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.