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Diana Coomans (1861-1952)

The late Joseph Coomans was one of the most popular of European painters with American collectors,and the sale of his works in this country alone made him a very rich man.

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He was a native of Brussels,and a pupil of Professor Hasselaereat Ghent, and of Nicaise de Keyser and Baron Wappers at the Antwerp Academy. From Antwerp heremoved to Paris, and going with the French army to Algiers, where he resided several years,he later traveled extensively in Italy, Turkey, Greece, and the Crimea.

At this time he paintedhistorical and portrait subjects, but in 1857 he visited Italy, and became interested in the remains ofancientPompeii, which were then being excavated. From this time forth he took up the line ofsubjects which made him famous.

He had two daughters, both of whom possessed remarkable artisticgifts, and who, as his pupils, became well-known painters. Someyears before his death he visited America, residing here for a prolonged period, and his daughters