Joseph van Severdonck

Joseph van Severdonck (1819–1905)^[1] was a Belgian artist.

Animated harvest scene with horse and dog

He specialized in historical and genre paintings, and studied under Wappers. Critical reception of his works was mixed.^[2] Walter Shaw Sparrow, who studied under him and considered him a "noted character", wrote of him in his memoirs.^[3]

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^[2]

Notes

1. Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (1999). Mallett's Index of Artists: International-biographical, Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present. Peter Smith. p. 400.
2. John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 171–2.
3. Walter Shaw Sparrow (1925). Memories of Life and Art Through Sixty Years. John Lane.