House on the boulevard Anspach

Ensor attended classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1877 to 1880. His teachers Joseph Stallaert, Alexandre Robert, Jef van Severdonck and director Jean Portaels, however, could not captivate him very much. After three years he returned to Ostend. Later on, during the winter months, he sometimes moved into a room in Brussels. In the winter of…

Ensor attended classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1877 to 1880. His teachers Joseph Stallaert, Alexandre Robert, Jef van Severdonck and director Jean Portaels, however, could not captivate him very much. After three years he returned to Ostend. Later on, during the winter months, he sometimes moved into a room in Brussels. In the winter of 1887-1888, he lived at the Avenue Anspach no. 123. From his workroom he looked straight into the rue de Bon Secours, which connects the Avenue Anspach with the rue du Marché au Charbon. He made a mirror image of the view of Avenue Anspach in 1887. He also made a drypoint of the building on the right, which occupies about half of the rue de Bon Secours, in mirror image (inv. 1998-B-20).