Henry Schouten - Oxen before the plough = pseudonym F.Boukies.

A beautiful work on canvas by Schouten with oxen in front of a plough.
It is signed with one of his many pseudonyms F.Boukies.
Image size 34.5 x 50 cm.
The painting has been repaired, of which almost nothing can be seen at the front (see photo).
The frame is damaged and needs to be replaced.


Henry Schouten was born in Indonesia around 1857 and died in Brussels in 1927. He was a Belgian painter who is best known as an animal and landscape painter. He also used the pseudonym Joseph Klaas. He studied at the Academy of Brussels (1876-1881). He was strongly influenced by the animal painter Alfred Verwee. He was primarily a smooth, realistic animal painter: cows, sheep, horses, chicken breeds and animals in the field. But he also painted farmers and shepherds in their environment: a hunter with dogs, a drinking horse seller or a milkman with a dog cart. He also painted a number of still lifes with flowers or poultry and fruit or a still life with fish and shrimps. During his career he used different artist names: Jos Klaus, M. Claes, Joseph Klaas, E. Meulat Joors, V. Marinus, F.Boukies and J. Remis.