Victor Mahu
Victor Mahu was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who specialized in genre painting. He is mainly known for his genre scenes of drinkers, card and board game players, dancers, musicians, peasants, cooks, and maids placed in tavern or kitchen interiors.
Life
Little is known about the life of Victor Mahu. His father was the Antwerp-based painter Cornelis Mahu, who was a versatile artist who practiced in many genres including still life, genre paintings, and seascapes and showed a very high level of craftsmanship in his compositions.Victor Mahu trained with his father and was accepted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of [St Luke] in 1689/1690. He was active in Antwerp until 1700, the year in which he died.