![Henri Leys - The Mass for Berthal de Haze [1854]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5142/13661982474_02e98deb55.jpg)
Henri Leys (Antwerp, February 18, 1815 - August 26, 1869) was a Belgian painter and printmaker. During the 1840s, Leys began painting scenes set in 16th-century Antwerp, combining details studied from life with a deliberately archaising style reminiscent of 16th-century German painters. Some of the pictures have specific historical subjects, but others are genre scenes. With these pictures, he earned a following among many younger artists in Belgium as well as a considerable reputation in France, where he won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1855 for his historical painting The Mass of Berthal de Haze.
[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels - Oil on canvas]