Conservation and Preservation

French, 20th century, male.

Born 16 November 1921, in Paris; died 9 February 1974.

Painter (including gouache), art restorer. Figure compositions, figures, portraits, landscapes, flowers, fruit, still-lifes. Stage sets.

Richard Bellias studied at the académies libres in Paris. He was a pupil of Othon Freisz, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the sculptor Robert Wlérick, at the École des Arts Appliqués. His work also shows the influence of his mentor, François Desnoyer. After meeting Édouard Goerg around ...

(b Lille, Feb 8, 1861; d Ghent, Jan 7, 1938).

Belgian painter, sculptor, illustrator, and stage designer. He studied music at the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium and sculpture at the Gewerbeschule, Ghent (after 1877). He visited Paris in 1887 and Italy in 1890, with a grant from the city of Ghent. He was deeply impressed by the masters of the Quattrocento, and was encouraged to take up painting after meeting Constantin Meunier (1891). He painted Symbolist scenes and was influenced by Art Nouveau. After exhibiting his work with Les XX in Brussels (1893), he made decorative panels for Oostakker Castle.

As an illustrator Doudelet worked on Pol De Mont’s Van Jezus (Antwerp, 1897) and books by Maurice Maeterlinck, for example Douze chansons (Paris, 1896) and Pelléas et Mélisande (Brussels, 1892 or 1922). He illustrated the periodicals Réveil (1895–1896), De Vlaamsche school, Mercure de France, Pan, L’Eroica, Nuovo Convito, De Vlaamsche School, Woord en beeld...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 11 June 1879, in Périgueux.

Painter, art restorer, copyist. Wall decorations.

Mazurier was a student of Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From an early stage, he specialised in the delicate restorations of old paintings and in large decorations on classical themes. He worked on the reproduction of French Romanesque frescoes for the Musée des Monuments Français du Palais de Chaillot, and he also received the commission for the decoration of the royal palace of Belgrade, where he applied free variations to the patterns of the eighteenth century....