Mar 11
Episode of the September Days 1830, on the Grand Place of Brussels
Artist: Égide Charles Gustave Wappers (Belgian, 1803–1874)
Date: 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Description
Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the territory of the then Southern Netherlands was ceded from the remains of the First French Empire to form part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Inspired by Liberalism, Catholicanti-Protestantism, recent food crises, and Francophone interests, the people of the then Southern Netherlands engaged in open revolt in August 1830, eventually declaring independence in October of that same year and establishing the Kingdom of Belgium in 1831.
