Eugène Remy Maes [1849-1931]
Belgium
Family of poultry, 1904.
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Signed at lower left and dated : ‘ERM’ / ‘1904.’.
Signed at upper right : ‘E. R. Maes [underline signature]’.

Marking type: Pencil handwriting.
Location: Center top panel of canvas verso.
Text: ‘The undersigned declares that / this picture has been painted / by himself to the order of / by Geo. Moulton Esq. of Chicago / the U.S. of A / E. R. Maes [angled underline of signature]’.  [possibly George E. Moulton, Esq. [1839-1907]]

Marking type: Round purple/blue printed label.
Location: Top center stretcher bar verso.
Text: ‘H.P. WHITMORE / FINE ARTS / 1517 DODGE ST. OMAHA’.

Eugene Remy Maes (1849-1931) [aka: Theo van Sluys]

BIOGRAPHY
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Eugene Remy Maes was born in Belgium as Theo van Sluys in 1849 in the village of Puurs near Bornem. He trained at the Brussels Academy of Fine Art. The artist produced work under the pseudonym Eugene Remy Maes.

Maes’s work was popular during his lifetime and made into various types of mechanical reproductions. He was known for his sensitive painting of animal fur and their faces.

Maes died in Kontich, Belgium in 1931.

SOURCE
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– “Eugene Remy Maes”. http://www.onlinegalleries.com/artists/d/eugene-remy-maes/8183
– Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, October 20, 1900, Saturday, page 7.