A Life in Brush and Line Born in Deinze in 1799 to a master tailor, Charles Picqué entered the world of fine art through the rigorous halls of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He was a man of many disciplines, moving with equal facility between the delicate precision of engraving, the graphic strength of lithography, and the fluid depth of oil painting. His early years were marked by a rapid ascent within the Belgian art scene.…