“ Wauters is equally eminent as a portraitist, in his earliest period exhibiting, as in his pictures, sober qualities and subtle grip, but later on developing into the whole range of a brilliant, forceful palette, and then into brighter and more delicate colours, encouraged thereto, in his more recent work, by his adoption of pastel as a medium even for life-size portraits, mainly of ladies. ”

“ The vigour of his male, and the grace and elegance of his female, portraits are unsurpassable, the resemblance perfect and the technical execution such as to place the artist in the front rank. Between 1889 and 1900 the painter contributed to the Royal Academy of London. Few artists have received such a succession of noteworthy distinctions and recognitions. ”

“ His “Hugo van der Goes,” the work of a youth of twenty-four, secured the grand medal of the Salon. He has been awarded no fewer than six “medals of honour”—at Paris in 1878 and 1889; Munich, 1879; Antwerp, 1885 ”