Henry Schouten - Beautifully realistically painted 19th century oil paint / canvas "Yacht

• Beautiful oil on canvas painting of hunting dogs in a rolling landscape by the Belgian master Henry Schouten (1857-1927). Signed bottom left and dated around 1900. Large canvas size (60 x 80cm) and in very good condition. Including frame, the dimensions are 75x95cm.
  

Henry Schouten (also mentioned as Henri Schouten) (Indonesia, ca. 1857 - Brussels, 1927) was a Belgian painter who is best known as an animal and landscape painter. He also used the pseudonym Joseph Klaas. He received his education at the Academy of Brussels (1876-1881). He was strongly influenced by the animal painter Alfred Verwee.
He was primarily a smooth realistic animal painter: cows, sheep, horses, chicken coops and farmyard animals. But he also painted farmers and shepherds in their surroundings, a hunter with dogs, a drinking horse seller or a dairy farmer with a dog cart. He also painted a number of still lifes with flowers or poultry and fruit or a still life with fish and shrimps. From 1882 he exhibited in Brussels with the Union des Arts. During his career he used all kinds of stage names: Jos Klaus, M. CLaes, Joseph Klaas, E. Meulat Joors, V. Marinus, J. Remis, and Van Dam.