Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin

Who was Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin?

Jean Colin was a Flemish painter most known for his portraits, nudes, and still life paintings. He was a pupil of Isidore Verheyden, one of the great Belgian masters of the 19th century. Colin was also considered a contemporary of Philippe Swyncop, who shared Colin's talent for producung intense life in his portrait subjects.

His travels in Africa led him to develop a taste for the exotic, which came through in his many paintings of gypsies, bohemians and even Africans in the Belgian Congo. Colin painted many portraits of his family members and was also commissioned to paint the portrait of His Majesty King Albert I of Belgium.