François-Jean-Emmanuel Böhm artwork • painting • previously for sale An elegant lady in a garden

The Belgian painter F.J.E. Böhm was a student at the Academy in Yperen, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He specialized in painting portraits and worked for some time in the studio of F.J. Kinsoen, one of the most famous Belgian portrait painters of his time. He also painted altarpieces for a number of Flemish churches. Both his son August Böhm and A.P. de Koninck were his students.