Background
Eliaerts was born in Deurne near Antwerp.
Eliaerts was born in Deurne near Antwerp.
He studied at the Academy of Antwerp.
Here he became acquainted with Georges Frédéric Ziesel and Pieter Faes who specialised in flower pieces like him. He moved to Paris where he was a teacher at the Institut du Légion d"Honneur in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. He also created cartons for tapestries of the Gobelin factory.
At the end of his life he decided to return to Antwerp where he died.