Ensor with Masks, self-portrait, Ensor aux masques, autoportrait, 1899, oil on canvas, 117 x 82 cm, Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Japan James Sidney Edward Ensor was born in 1860 in the town of Ostend, in Belgium. James' father, James Frederic, a cultured Englishman, met his mother, Marie Catherine Haegheman, a local girl from a middle class family that owned a souvenir and curiosity shop. The shop was to provide a livelihood for the Ensor family, and the future painter grew up in this setting…