Henri Joseph THOMAS (1878-1972) ✿

Henri Joseph Thomas (1878-1972) was a Belgian genre, portrait and still life painter, sculptor and etcher from the Belgian School, Brussels, Belgium.

He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1895 until 1898 and started a studio in Brussels afterwards, where he mainly worked as an illustrator of avant-garde books.

He also specialized in marine paintings, floral still life paintings and portraits of elegant ladies. His expositions in the Belle Époque include those at the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in Brussels in 1906, 1909 and 1921, and in the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1910.

Thomas was a member of the Labeur society for fine artists that organised annual expositions for its members in the Museum of Modern Arts in Brussels between 1898 and 1907. His painting The Star (l'Etoile)was exposed in the Museum of Ixelles and at the Triennale of Liege in Belgium, 1928.