BRAEKELEER, HENRI JEAN AUGUSTIN DE (184o-88), Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp on June 12 184o, and died there July 21 1888. He was trained by his father, Ferdinand de Braekeleer (1792-1883), a genre painter, and his uncle Baron Henri Leys. The first pictures he exhibited, "The Laundry" (Van Cutsem collection, Brussels) and "The Copper smith's Workshop" (Vleeshovwer collection, Antwerp), were shown at the Antwerp exhibition in 1861. "The Brewer's House at Antwerp" (Marlier collection), better known as "A Man Sitting," is generally regarded as his masterpiece. There are many good examples of his work in Brussels and Antwerp. As a lithographer and etcher, his work resembles that of Henri Leys. Towards the end of his life de Braekeleer did some dot painting (pointillisme), in which he achieved admirable effects of light. See C. Lemonnier, Henri de Braekeleer (1905).