Agapit Stevens
Agapit Pierre Jean Joseph Stevens (; 1848–1924) was a Belgian painter of glamorous women in interiors, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and Orientalist scenes depicting odalisques, dancers and harem musicians. Life Agapit Stevens was born on 21 October 1848 in Brussels and was registered under the name Agapit Pierre Jean Joseph Van Gotsenhoven. As his parents Jean Daniel Stevens and Marie Van Gotsenhoven were unmarried at the time of his birth he was registered under his mother's name. His parents were married on 24 August 1853 in Brussels. On this occasion his birth was legalised and he was from then on named Stevens. His father was a painter of genre scenes. His brother (Alphonse Jacques) René Stevens was born on 25 April 1858 in Ixelles and also became a painter. On 11 March 1875 he married Marie Mélanie Desmares in Elsene. The couple had at least two children. His wife died on 13 February 1898 in Etterbeek. He married Joséphine Loriaux as his second wife on 16 December 1899 in Elsene. He was a member of L'Essor, an artists' association in Brussels founded on 4 March 1876 by students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels. The