Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Sunset Over the Thames, London," Emile Claus, 1916.
Belgian artist Claus (1849-1924) plied several trades before taking up art; although he liked to draw as a child, his father sent him to be a baker's apprentice. Claus later worked for the railroads and as a flax salesman, but his heart was always on the canvas.
Eventually, he trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts from 1869 to 1874, and very quickly became a prominent painter. He started off as a Realist but his growing friendship with Monet influenced him, and he added Impressionism to his style. In 1904 he started an artist's group called "Vie et Lumiere" (Life and Light) and their style became known as Luminism. He fled Belgium for London during WWI, but returned in 1918. He had one last exhibition but his work fell from favor as Expressionism came into vogue.
This landscape, painted during his WWI exile in London, is the subject of disagreement. Is it Impressionist or Luminist? It's a bit more representational than most Impressionists, and less colorful, but at the same time, the depiction of light is up their alley. In the end, it's quite a scene.
From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
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