Antique Framed Oil Portrait Painting on Canvas by Marcel de Lince (1886-1958)

Antique Framed Oil Portrait Painting on Canvas by Marcel de Lince (1886-1958) is a captivating work representative of the artist's incredible talents in capturing the essence of his subjects in his portraiture efforts.  The subject in this work is an unnamed yet beautiful young woman, most probably painted while she was a maiden in an effort to capture the timeless allure of her youth.  She is dressed in relatively modest clothes with unpretentious jewelry.  Her hair is arranged in a style popular during the early 1900s.  Striking in its realism, one still notices the subtle impressionistic touches in her garments and the background.  Survives in its original frame.  Marcel de Lince (1886-1958) first trained at the Saint-Luc school in Liège then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège between 1910 and 1913, where he was a pupil of Adrien de Witte and Émile Berchmans.  He was a member of the art circle L'Envol which was active from July 1920 to April 1925, created by Edmond Delsa to promote Walloon painting.  From 1922 to 1923, he traveled and painted in Zeeland, Italy, Portugal and France.  His primary focuses were on genres such as landscapes, seascapes and portraits.  His works, often produced in the Liège region, reveal for the most part an impressionist and pointillist technique. Works by Marcel de Lincé are present in the collections of the Museum of Walloon Art, the Wittert Museum, the Museum of Walloon Life and the artistic collections of the Province of Liège.  His works have been exhibited at the Royal Circle of Fine Arts in Liège, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Metz and Namur.  He was appointed officer of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.  A published critical assessment of his work was as follows:  "The characteristic of Marcel de Lincé's art and the true mark of his talent is a gentle pantheism.  He loves nature, submits his forces and his will to it, serves it for itself, puts all his art into soliciting it, listening to it whisper softly, guessing its most intimate secrets.  This modest, sincere and hard-working artist, who celebrates in a persuasive way all his own, the simple beauty of our days, builds a work that deserves consideration and to which the Namur museum paid homage in acquiring, in 1927, an excellent painting La Vallée de l'Aisne.
Circa early 1900s
Measures 35.5H x 29W x 1.5D