Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a Belgian painterwww.artnet.com : Edouard Agneessens born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,Berko and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome.Bénédite, Léonce (1910). Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 290. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Agneessens later built up quite a career in Saint-Petersburg, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder. His works include Standing Male Nude (1870), Ladies by a Piano, and Bloemenstilleven. He died in 1885 in Uccle.
Honours 1881: Knight in the Order of Leopold.Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881
Sources P. & V. Berko, 1981: Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875, p. 11 Knokke P. Piron, 1999: De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw. Art in Belgium Biographie Nationale, Koninklijke Academie van België, deel XXX
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