Louis Joseph Brüls (German, 1803-1882)
The Knight’s Farewell, The Knight’s Return, ca.1840
Louis Joseph Brüls was born in Aachen and learnt to paint at the academy in Antwerp under W. Herreyns, one of the most famous narrative painters of his time. Brüls settled in Rome in 1837 and died there in 1882. The scenes in this pair of works are presumably intended to evoke the time of the crusades, which was a popular theme in Romantic painting.
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