127 - Charles Hubert Eyck, Circus Rider, oil painting, 1950s/1960s, originally framed

Charles Hubert Eyck, Circus Rider, oil painting, 1950s/1960s, originally framed Charles Hubert Eyck, 1897 Meerssen - 1983 Schimmert, Dutch painter and visual artist, shown here: Against a dark background, a colourfully dressed circus rider performs tricks on a white horse, oil on wood, 40 x 50 cm, signed on the right, in the original white and gold frame About the artist: From 1916 to 1917, Charles Hubert Eyck attended the ‘Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten’ in Rotterdam, and from 1918 to 1922 the ‘Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten’ in Amsterdam; in 1922 he was awarded the Dutch “Prix de Rome”, which came with a scholarship. Eyck enjoyed his first major success in Paris, where he was able to exhibit and sell 30 paintings at Blanche Guillot’s gallery. He subsequently received his first major commission for murals at the ‘Sint-Vincentius a Paulokerk’ in Brunssum. In 1939, the centenary of the first railway journey in the Netherlands was celebrated; on this occasion, following an international competition, Eyck was commissioned to create the marble sculpture ‘Der Verkehr’ for Utrecht Central Station. For Queen Juliana’s coronation in 1948, he was awarded the highly prestigious commission by the Dutch government to immortalise the ceremony in paintings. In 1955, Charles Hubert Eyck became a professor at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.