The Amsterdam Roots and Antwerp Training Amsterdam, 1851. Joan Frans Berg enters a world that will soon shape his brushwork through the rigorous discipline of Dutch and Belgian masters. His early years are defined by the guidance of P.E. Greive and August Allebé, instructors who instill a foundation in the realistic tradition. The path leads away from the Netherlands to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he begins his for…