Portrait of Artist A. C. Lens
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
portraitThe painter Lens was an artist with an international reputation, a representative of the neo-classical ideal. In 1763, he became the director of the Antwerp Academ. He is portrayed by Willem Herreyns in an expressive, theatrical manner, in a flowing cloak, surrounded by the tools of his painter's trade.
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