Diana Coomans (Belgian,1861-1952) Oil on wood panel painting.Signed lower left. A beautiful detailed subject of maidens by a water well in Lion.Sight size: 8" 1/2 by 10" 3/4.Frame measurements : 15" by 18"Artist Biography:Diana Coomans was a Belgian painter who was born in Paris on 18th of June 1952. She was the daughter of the famous painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans (1816-1889) and Adelaide Lacroix (1838-1884). Her sister Heva Coomans and her brother Oscar-Jean Coomans (1848-1884) were also painters.Like her father and sister, she specialized in romantic portrayals of the original inhabitants of Pompei before the eruption of Vesuvius devastated life there. Her 1885 work In the Gynaeceum was included in the book Women Painters of the World. Coomans died in New York City on august 16th 1861.

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