Albrecht Lefebvre - Slapende zwaan

The Belgian artist Albert Lefebvre completed his education at the art academy in Antwerp. In 1910 he made a study trip to Paris, and after the First World War he visited Rome and Athens, often returning to Italy and Greece. During the war he stayed in the Netherlands, including in Noordwijk, where he was inspired by the coastal landscape and the nearby bulb fields in Lisse and Hillegom. Lefebvre mainly made landscapes, rendered in an impressionistic style that borders on luminism.
Albert worked in the studio of Isidoor Verheyden (1846-1905), a well-known landscape painter, and he took drawing and painting lessons at the Brussels Academy. It is certain that Lefebvre was friends with the late-impressionist painter and patron Anna Boch, who was 30 years her senior.