GALLAIT, LOUIS (1810-1887), Belgian painter, was born at Tournay, Hainaut, on May 9, 181o. He studied at Tournay under Hennequin, and at Antwerp under Van Bree. He then settled in Paris, sending from there to the Belgian salons a series of important historical pictures. He was then urged to return to Brussels, where the latter half of his life was spent, and where he died on Nov. 20, 1887. Among his most famous works are: "The Abdication of Charles V." (1841), in the Brussels gallery ; "The Last Honours paid to Counts Egmont and Horn by the Corporations of the Town of Brussels," now at Tournay; "The Death of Egmont," in the Berlin gallery; and the "Coronation of Baudouin, Emperor of Constantinople," painted for Versailles. Other pictures are in the Brussels gallery.
See Teichlin, Louis Gallait and die Malerei in Deutschland (1853) ; C. Lemonnier, Histoire des beaux-arts en Belgique (1881) ; J. Dujardin, L'Art flamand (1899) .