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Architect, born on 15 May 1818 in Gochenée and died on 16 September 1895 in Ixelles.
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Portrait of Alphonse Balat by Jan August Hendrik Leys, 1866, KMSKA collection, via KIK-IRPA CC0
Balat Object ID: 126641, URI: hdl:20.500.14037/object.126641
Balat was one of the founding members of the Société archéologique de Namur. He was court architect to Leopold II and designed the monumental Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. These modern structures in iron and glass were early manifestations of Art Nouveau. In 1854, he was also the architect of the Victoria Greenhouse (the Balat Greenhouse) at the Meise Botanic Garden.
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- MARTINY, Victor-Gaston, "Balat, Alphonse-Hubert-François", in: Biographie Nationale , d. 37, supplement 9, fasc. 1, 1971, kol. 15-18.