CLAYS, PAUL JEAN (1819-1900), Belgian marine painter, was born at Bruges in 1819. and died at Brussels in i9oo. A Fleming in his feeling for colour, Clays set his palette with clean, strong hues, and their powerful harmonies were in striking con trast with the rusty, smoky tones then in favour. If he was not a "luminist" in the modern use of the word, he deserves at any rate to be classed with the fo.znders of the modern naturalistic school. Among his works are : "Dutch Boats in the Flushing Roads," in the National Gallery, London; "The Port of Ant werp," "Coast near Ostend," and a "Calm on the Scheldt," in the Brussels gallery; "The Meuse at Dordrecht" in the Antwerp museum ; "The Open North Sea," in the Pinakothek at Munich ; and "The Festival of the Freedom of the Scheldt at Antwerp in 1863," in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York.
See Camille Lemonnier, Histoire des Beaux-Arts (Brussels, 1887).