19th century portrait of a lady with a vase of irises. The oil on canvas is signed by the artist Nicolas van den Eeden (1856-1918) and is mounted in a wooden gilt frame. The oil on canvas is a particularly good example of his work. It has recently had a light clean.Eeden was a Belgium artist who worked mainly in Paris. He later moved to Boscombe, Dorset, where he died.He was the son of Louis Van den Eeden, a shoemaker, and Virginie Vervalke. He was the brother of Jan Van den Eeden, a Belgian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator .He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he was a student of Théodore Canneel . He spent several months in Paris studying and painting in museums. Subsequently, he settled in Ghent and then, in 1885, in Brussels.He then executed a series of large paintings on historical or religious subjects which, following exhibitions in Belgium and Paris which were bought for public collections/government buildings. He is listed...