Isidore MEYERS “Landscape at sunset“ oil painting on wood

Around 1850, Is. Meyers studied with Jacob Jacobs at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 1854, while still a student at the Academy, he exhibited a sketch entitled Commencement d'orage at the 1854 Brussels Salon.
During their stay in Paris, where they studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts between 1855 and 1858, Is. Meyers and A.-J. Heymans became acquainted with the French painters of the Barbizon School, whose resistance to formal academicism in Peinture de paysage had grown. Meyers studies with Charles-François Daubigny and Camille Corot. Meyers and Heymans were the first to react against the conservative style then prevailing around Antwerp painters such as Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Henri Leys and Henri de Braekeleer.
In 1858, after returning to Brussels, Is. Meyers began to study in the Kempen, where he retired in October 1861 with his colleagues Jacques Rosseels and Adrien-Joseph Heymans, at the same time as the Calmpthout school was being born. The three founded the Dendermonde Academy, where Isidore Meyers, famous for his harmonies in gray tones, became a teacher. He taught Franz Courtens, the famous Flemish luminist, as well as Adrien Le Mayeur, R. Steppe and Franz Callebaut. Is. Meyers was officially domiciled at the Het Pannenhuis inn in Calmpthout, Kempen, from 1861 until 1877.
When Is. Meyers went to Wechelderzande to paint, Henry Van de Velde, among others, followed in his footsteps, later quitting painting. Between 1866 and 1872, Is. Meyers traveled in Europe: to Denmark (1866 and 1871), Glasgow (1872) and the Netherlands (1872). On his return to Hamme, his previously opulent style became lighter and his coloring clearer. After living in various locations in Antwerp (where he worked in a studio with Jacques Rosseels in 1875) and Buggenhout (1877), Is. Meyers settled permanently in Brussels in 1889. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des XIII. According to Octave Maus, he is considered one of the pioneers of the Dendermonde School.