Jules Ernest CRAN (1876-1926) Artist's studio (view of the Royal Church of Sainte-Marie in Brussels?). Oil on canvas. 120 x 50 cm. wear. Signed and dated lower right, "Jules Cran Brux 1905". Note : Jules Ernest Joseph Cran (1876-1926), trained at the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles with Joseph Stallaert and Jean-François Portaels, an admirer of Delacroix, Ingres and Géricault, winner of the Prix Godecharle (1900) with Caïn, He made a name for himself with heroic-historical compositions (Les Filles du Rhin), outstanding portraits (Raoul Warocqué, his mother), and won acclaim with La prestation de Serment du roi Albert Ier (1914), while painting Thudinian landscapes and seascapes in Nieuport.