Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ferdinand de Braekeleer, 1792-1883: Notice Biographique
Dans une pet-tion adressée de Bruxelles au ministre Chap tal, en 1798, on voit la Belgique venir en suppliante lui dire qu'elle ne possède plus un seul tableau de Rubens ni de van Dyck Il sufiisait, pour nous, que l'école ?amande pùt dater son origine d'un André Lens dont l'in?uence, en effet, plus qu'on n'aime à se l'avouer, laisse sa trace dans les oeuvres des premières années du siècle.
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