Signed oil on canvas signed by the listed Belgium painter Jean Baptiste Scoriel (1883 - 1956). The painting is dated 1935 and shows a view of a river with farm beyond. Scoriel was the son of a miner and of Flemish origin. He was only three when his family moved to Tamines and was orphaned at twelve. JB Scoriel found his artistic vocation from an early age. Although from the age of eleven years old, he had to work for the family as a worker in a brickyard and then a foundry. Despite this he managed to enroll in the School of Fine Arts in Namur, led by Theodore Baron. He was taught by D. Merny and in 1905 making a very fast passage to the Brussels Academy. After an exhibition in 1906 and encouraged by a promising success, he then focused on the task he had set himself - to be a landscape painter. He attended for a while the workshop of landscape gardener Henri Deglume, then Félix Delahaut. He then went on to complete his training at the School of Emile Claus - a realist painter....