Alfred Stevens: life and works

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant innovative women.

Stevens was born in Brussels. He came from a family full of life with the visual arts: his older brother Joseph (1816–1892) and his son Léopold (1866–1935) were painters, while option brother Arthur (1825–1899) was an art dealer and critic. His father, who had fought in the Napoleonic wars in the army of William I of the Netherlands, was an art squirrel who owned several watercolors by Eugène Delacroix, among additional artists. His mother’s parents ran Café de l’Amitié in Brussels, a meeting place for politicians, writers, and artists. All the Stevens children benefited from the people they met there, and the social skills they acquired in growing up something like important people.