The Belgian art critic Octave Maus famously summed up the response from contemporaneous art critics to Ensor's innovative (and often scathingly political) work: "Ensor is the leader of a clan. ĭuring the late 19th century, much of Ensor's work was rejected as scandalous, particularly his painting Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888–89). His travels were very few: three brief trips to France and two to the Netherlands in the 1880s, and a four-day trip to London in 1892. From 1880 until 1917, he had his studio in the attic of his parents' house. From 1877 to 1880, he attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where one of his fellow students was Fernand Khnopff. Ensor himself lacked interest in academic study and left school at the age of fifteen to begin his artistic training with two local painters. Ensor's mother, Maria Catherina Haegheman, was Belgian. Ensor's father, James Frederic Ensor, born in Brussels to English parents, was a cultivated man who studied engineering in England and Germany.
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