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His first drawings were promising and, at the age of twelve, he entered the École des Beaux-arts de Lyon, where he studied engraving with Victor.
Agapit Stevens (1848 - 1924) was active/lived in Belgium.!
Agapit Stevens
Belgian painter (1848–1924)
Agapit Pierre Jean Joseph Stevens (née Agapit Pierre Jean Joseph Van Gotsenhoven; 21 October 1848 – 19 February 1924) was a Belgian painter of glamorous women in interiors, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and Orientalist scenes depicting odalisques, dancers and harem musicians.[1]
Life
Agapit Stevens was born on 21 October 1848 in Brussels and was registered under the name Agapit Pierre Jean Joseph Van Gotsenhoven.
As his parents Jean Daniel Stevens and Marie Van Gotsenhoven were unmarried at the time of his birth he was registered under his mother's name. His parents were married on 24 August 1853 in Brussels. On this occasion his birth was legalised and he was from then on named Stevens.
His father was a painter of genre scenes.[2] His brother (Alphonse Jacques) René Stevens was born on 25 April 1858 in Ixelles and also became a painter.[1][3]
On 11 March 1875, h