Vincent de Vos or Joost Vincent de Vos (1829–1875) was a Belgian artist who specialized in the painting of scenes with animals, in particular, monkeys, dogs and cats. He is particularly known for his singeries, i.e. paintings of monkeys imitating human behavior intended as a diverting satire of human behaviour.
Life
Vincent de Vos was born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1829, the son of Jan Eugene Vos, a miller, and Marie Anne Verhaeghe. He studied at the Academy of Kortrijk under Filip De Witte, a painter of portraits, genre scenes and biblical scenes. Edward Woutermaertens introduced him to the painting of animals. At the academy, his early works won medals for composition in 1848, drawing after antique sculpture in 1849, anatomy in 1851, and the gold medal for perspective in 1852.
In 1870 he travelled to Italy where he spent time in the Roman Campagna. He eventually settled down in his home town Kortrijk, where he set up his studio. He kept a small menagerie with dogs, wolves, foxes, monkeys and even a camel. These were useful as the models for his works which consisted mainly of small sized paintings of animals.
His work was successful commercially, and was exhibited primarily in Belgium and France.
He died in Kortrijk on 5 October 1875.
Works
He painted principally dogs and monkeys, which he depicted with a lot of sense for psychology, and often in a rather humouristic way. Animals, particularly monkeys and dogs, were frequent subjects of his work. He often depicted animals in circus costume. The paintings typically are small in size, and dates, titles and signatures often are hidden as box labels or in posters depicted in the work. De Vos, together with the brothers Emmanuel Noterman and Zacharie Noterman, was one of the principal 19th century Belgian painters of animal scenes with monkeys and dogs. Like those two artists, he created a number of singeries, i.e. paintings of monkeys engaging in human activities.
Selected works
His works include:
- Circus monkey and dog
- At the market
- Rest after the hunt
- A Blenheim and a Tricolour King Charles Spaniel on a Persian
- Two dogs by the doghouse
- At play
- Best friends
- A terrier smoking a pipe
- Dog meets mice, 1865
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Joos Vincent de Vos Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, William Secord Gallery website, accessed 20 June 2010
- Broelmuseum Collection Highlights Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Stadt Kortrijk website, accessed 20 June 2010
- Vincent De Vos, Dog and monkey at Jean Moust
- Vincent De Vos, Museum of Learning website, accessed 20 June 2010
- Emmanuel Noterman, Singerie at Jean Moust
- ^ "Past Auction Results for Vincent de Vos Art – Vincent de Vos on artnet". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- "Vincent de VOS, Belgian, Two dogs, Oil on panel". Liveauctioneers.com. 2005-11-18. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- "At Play reproduction by Vincent de Vos". Artchive.com. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- "Best Friends reproduction by Vincent de Vos". Artchive.com. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- "Vincent De Vos (Belgian, 1829–1875) | A terrier smoking a pipe; and four companion paintings | Interiors Auction | Paintings, oil | Christie's". Christies.com. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
External links
Media related to Vincent De Vos at Wikimedia Commons
