Blonde Child Charles-Ernest de Belle circa 1918 Oil On Canvas 10 x 8 Sold

Charles-Ernest de Belle

1873 - 1939
 
Born 1873 in Budapest, Hungary. Art scholarships and a grant from the Royal Academy enabled him to Study in Paris. Charles-Ernest de Belle began his career working as an illustrator in London. He contributed work to the Illustrated London News, Lady's Pictorial, and other publications of William Collins and Sons. While working in Ireland as a illustrator for the Dublin Times he married a local girl. He moved to Montreal, Canada in 1912 with his wife and children, where he painted portraits and landscapes. He had two major solo exhibitions there in 1923 and 1925. He worked mainly in pastel and in oils and developed his own method of fixing his pastel paintings, mounting them between two pieces of glass.