In Oct. 1899, just over 2 months before his death, 27-year-old Henri Evenepoel was excited and elated: the Ghent Museum had decided to buy his Spaniard in Paris, a portrait of his friend, the 35-year-old Spanish painter Francisco Iturrino.... The critics called the painting 'characteristic of contemporary Belgian art' and 'an almost perfect masterpiece'. ...magnificent result of 5 years of... painterly http://www.mskgent.be/en/collection/1900-three-portraits/henri-evenepoel-the-spaniard-in-paris