PAINTING PAINTING BOATS SIGNED ROMAIN STEPPE - XIX CENTURY
Painted oil painting on tablet entitled "L'Escaut à Hemixem vers le soir" by ROMAIN STEPPE. << Romain Steppe (Antwerp, 11 January 1859 - there, 28 November 1927) was a Belgian painter, a realistic painter of river and marine landscapes. He was the son of a shipowner from the port of Antwerp and was already twenty when he chose an artistic career. He was a student of E. Van Hoorde, Charles Boland and Isidoor Meyers. The sea and the port in particular inspired him in his early works, while he discovered a new source of inspiration during his wanderings with Isidoor Meyers in the Scheldeland. He preferred atmospheric images in small formats. He also painted in Limburg