Piet Verhaert

Piet Verhaert
Piet Verhaert
	Painter

Piet Verhaert (Antwerp, 25 February 1852 – Oostduinkerke, 4 August 1908) was a Belgian painter. He was a member of Les XX.

Life and career

Verhaert was a painter and

townscapes, interiors, figures and portraits. He was also a notable painter of decorative panels. Trained at the Academy of Antwerp, he originally studied sculpting but switched to painting. He was part of a group of young artists known as the "Van Beers Clique", led by Jan van Beers. This group included the artists Alexander Struys and Jef Lambeaux. They were well known for their mischievous and eccentric behaviour, which included walking around Antwerp dressed in historic costumes.^[1]

He travelled to The Netherlands, Italy and later Spain. He debuted in 1873 at the Triannual Salon van Antwerpen. He stayed for a year in Paris in 1876.

During his time in Spain (1882–83), he made copies from

Doornik and Ghent

.