Charles-Louis Baugniet; Belgian painter, lithographer and aquarellist. His name remains attached to the lithographing of portraits of famous and lesser-known figures from Belgium, France and England. They are politicians, senior officials, prominent clergy, industrialists, professors, artists, musicians, actors, and people from the vaudeville world. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baugniet) Charles-Louis Baugniet (27 Feb. 1814, Brussels - 5 July 1886, Sèvres). He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for 2 years, beginning in 1827, and his first attempts at lithography date from that same year. His reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine L'Artiste in 1833. Two years later he began a collaboration with Louis Huard to produce a series of portraits of the Belgian House of Representatives. (Huard finished only 6 portraits, with Baugniet completing the remainder, only finishing in 1842.) This project was followed in 1836 by a series of 30 portraits of contemporary artists: "Les Artistes contemporains". He was commissioned to do portraits of the Belgian Royal Family, and this led to his appointment as court painter in 1841. In 1843 he moved to London where he became a popular society portrait painter. Baugniet also designed the first Belgian postage stamp which began circulation on 1 July 1849; the stamp depicted Leopold I, King of the Belgians, after a painting by another artist. Baugniet settled in Paris in 1860. The invention and development of photography rapidly stifled the market for lithographic portraits, forcing many of Baugniet's colleagues to become professional photographers. Baugniet however concentrated on producing portraits and elegant genre paintings, the latter enjoying great popularity, a popularity which bridged the fall of the Second Empire and rise of the Third Republic. He died... (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2017/04/decorative-white-women-genre-paintings.html) undefined

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