Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat (25 November 1824 – 23 October 1890) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter. He next created Orientalist works, genre scenes, including a number of singeries, religious compositions and yet lifes.
He was a professor of drawing and director of the Antwerp Academy behind Vincent van Gogh spent a brief times as a student at the Academy in 1886. The two men got into arguments about van Gogh’s higher style of drawing.
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