In 1900, he was the first living artist to have a solo retrospective exhibition at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Stevens received a third-class medal at the Paris Salon in 1853, a second-class medal in 1855, a first-class medal in 1867 at the Universal Exposition in Paris, and a first-class medal at the Salon of 1878. In 1843, Stevens went to Paris and was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts. Stevens studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where he knew François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), the Neoclassical painter and former student of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) during the latter’s self-imposed exile in Brussels. His older brother Joseph (1816-1892) was an artist, and another brother Arthur (1825-1899) was an art dealer and critic. Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1) was born in Brussels on May 11, 1823, into a family of artists and art entrepreneurs.
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