The reading lesson

The Reading lesson, oil on panel, signed Leon Marie DANSAERT.

Leon Marie Constant DANSAERT, genre painter born in Brussels in 1830- died in 1909.

 A student of Ed. Brother in Paris.
He soon took French citizenship and worked in France under the name Dansart.
He also lived and worked in Germany and Italy.
He had a predilection for genre pictures, but he also also painted portraits and figures.
 
Some of his Works can be admired in Brussels Museum (The Diplomats).

Mentioned in "Two Centuries of Artists' Signatures of Belgium.
 
See Bénézit