He painted the king’s dogs, disarmed a soldier with his bare hands, and it was he who built the walls where it’s so pleasant to enjoy a drink or a meal. Eugène Verboeckhoven. The name may not ring a bell. And yet. As a child, he was sent to work in a toy factory. As an adult, he was a painter so famous that his works were copied to excess. A fighter in the Belgian Revolution, a signatory to the petition that placed Leopold I on the throne. And in 1836, the first owner of the