Fernand Toussaint

Fernand Toussaint (1873–1956) was a Belgian painter.

He was born in Brussels. He studied art with Jean-François Portaels and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. At the age of eighteen he left for Paris to continue his studies there.[1] He specialised in painting portraits of women, still lifes and city-scapes, in the Impressionist, Art nouveau, and Post-Impressionist styles.

He died in the Brussels suburb of Elsene.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 517, illustrations p. 204 and 396.
  2. ↑ Royal Decree of H.M. King Albert I on 14.11.1919
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