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JEAN GOUWELOOS (BELGIAN, 1868-1943) JEAN GOUWELOOS (BELGIAN, 1868-1943) Portrait of a Lady signed 'Jean Gouweloos' (lower left) oil on canvas 55.5 x 41.5 cm. (21 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.) Provenance Sale; Chiswick Auctions, London, 12 December 2017, lot 216, where purchased by the present owner Jean Gouweloos was a prominent pupil of well respected Orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895), whom he studied under at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels between 1886 and 1888. In 1891 he was a member of "Voorwaarts" and following this in 1895, became a member of the avant-garde group "Le Sillon". Gouweloos participated at the Triennale Salons and the "Salon de la Société des Beaux-Arts". Depictions of women such as this present example were typical of his subject matter for much of his career.