The Ship-Portraitist of Antwerp In the bustling maritime atmosphere of late nineteenth-century Belgium, Henry Loos carved out a niche defined by the salt and timber of the sea. Born in 1871, he emerged from Antwerp, a city whose identity was inextricably linked to the constant movement of global trade. While many artists of his era sought the abstract or the pastoral, Loos focused his gaze upon the vessels that fueled the era's commer…