The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian 1806-1865). Fear of being buried alive is, apparently, still a common phobia.

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L'inhumation précipitée, 1854 © Antoine Wiertz

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'El entierro precipitado' (1854) del pintor belga Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865) inspira la última aportación de a la Rogue's Gallery del diario

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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. A popular fear in history was that of illness or injury causing the appearance of death - and then burial alive!

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The Premature Burial (1854), Antoine Wiertz, [2000 x 1367]

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''The Premature Burial'' by Antoine Wiertz (1854)

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The Premature Burial - Antoine Wiertz, 1854. (Wiertz Museum, Brussels).

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The Premature Burial 1854
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806–1865)

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22 février 1806 : Naissance de Antoine Wiertz, peintre, sculpteur et lithographe belge.

L'inhumation précipitée, 1854, huile sur toile - Musée Antoine Wiertz, Bruxelles.

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Shells & Sea-plants, 1809, Henricus Franciscus Wiertz, 1784-1858. A 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands, he won gold medals for his drawings of nudes.

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Mirror of the Devil, 1856
Two Young Girls or The Beautiful Rosine, 1847

by Antoine Wiertz

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‘This year I finally had the opportunity to visit a museum in Brussels that in my opinion should be much better known, the Musée Wiertz’ – R.H. Quaytman https://t.co/WiNo13WMCL

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Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz evokes true terror in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe with his 1855 picture, "Premature Burial". There's even a sinister-looking spider crawling toward the luckless subject- creepy!

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11) 'The Young Sorceress', Antoine Wiertz (c. 1857),
Oil painting of a young woman being introduced to witchcraft by an experienced while sinister entities watch over them.

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Antoine Joseph Wiertz — The Young Sorceress, 1854

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Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial, oil on canvas, 1854

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