Artist frantz charlet biography

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Frantz Charlet was born into an artistic family, his brother was the painter Emile Charlet and he was related to Emile Wauters, also an artist of some considerable note. He lived in the Molenstraat, Brussels and later in the Avenue Molière.
 
Frantz Charlet was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1872 to 1873 and again from 1876 to 1881. His main teacher there was the renowned figurative painter, Jean Portaels. Fellow students at the time included a number that would go on to greatness including Eugène Broerman, François-Joseph Halkett, Théo Van Rysselberghe and Rodolphe Wytsman. Leaving the Aacdemy in 1881 he continued his studies in Paris  with artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jules Lefebre and Emile Carolus-Duran at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
 
Charlet was an avid traveler. Along with Théo Van Rysselberghe, Constantin Meunier and Darío de Regoyos he Frantz charlet biography!