Edmond Falise The Boy Oil Portrait Painting

The Boy Oil Portrait on Canvas

Heavy Gilt Frame with signed of wear
Signed by the Artist, Edmond Falise (1873-1948) 
Dimensions: 46 x 40cm

Sourced in Belgium

The renowned Edmond Falise was born in Huy on February 16, 1873 and died in Liege on May 24, 1948 is a Belgian sculptor and painter. He was also a professor of ornamental sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège from 1909 to 1938, and director of the same institution from 1920 to 1925.

He is, among other things, the author of the medallions in Bronze with the effigy of the King Albert I who is part of the Victory Monument (or Monument to the Dead), located in Huy and music teacher Joseph Duysburgh which is part of the Monument to Eugène Godin, also located in Huy. He also made the bronze statue of a soldier holding the Belgian flag which is part of the Monument to the Dead of Tubize. Finally, one of his paintings is kept at the Huy City Hall

The Monument to the14th Regiment of Line (also called Monument des Fusillés of the Remparts de la Citadelle), a monumental work by the artist who was inaugurated in August 1932, is located at the foot of the Citadel of Liège at the intersection of Boulevard du Troisième Génie and the Peri at the top of the Mountain of Bueren