Joseph van Severdonck

Joseph van Severdonck (1819 - 1905) [cite book |author=Daniel Trowbridge Mallett |title=Mallett's Index of Artists: International-biographical, Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present |publisher=Peter Smith |location=|year=1999|pages=400 |isbn=|doi= |accessdate=] was a Belgian artist. He specialized in historical and genre paintings, and studied under Wappers. Critical reception of his works was mixed. cite book |author=John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins |title=Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings |publisher=C. Scribner's Sons |location=New York|year=1887|pages=171-2 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RQYFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&dq=SEVERDONCK,+JOSEPH+VAN&output=html|doi= |accessdate=] . Walter Shaw Sparrow, who studied under him and considered him a "noted character", wrote of him in his memoirs. [cite book |author= Walter Shaw Sparrow |title=Memories of Life and Art Through Sixty Years |publisher=John Lane |location=|year=1925|pages=|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IJk5AAAAMAAJ&q=SEVERDONCK&dq=SEVERDONCK&output=html&pgis=1 | doi= |accessdate=]

Work titles include:
*The Judgement of Solomon (ca. about 1850), Oil on canvas
*14 Stations, (Church of Notre Dame, Namur)
*Battle of Graveungen (1855);
*Defence of Tournay in 1581
*Visitation of Mary (1862)
*Ballot among the Gypsies
*Battle of Vucht, (Palace of Justice, Ghent )
*Cavalry Attack

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