Modeste Carlier (1820–1878) was a Belgian portrait and subject painter.

Modeste Carlier
Born
Modeste Carlier

ca. 1820
Quaregnon, Belgium
Diedca. 1878
Ixelles, Belgium
OccupationPainter

Life edit

Carlier was born at Quaregnon near Mons in 1820. He was a pupil of Picot.[1] The collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium includes his picture Locusta Experimenting with Poison on a Slave.[1][2] He died in Ixelles in 1878.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Bryan 1886
  2. ^ The French title, as used by the museum is Locuste éprouvant des poisons sur un esclave."La collection – Résultats pour l'artiste " Modeste Carlier "". – Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  3. ^ "La collection – Résultats pour l'artiste " Modeste Carlier "". – Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

Sources edit

  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Carlier, Modeste". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.