Rémy Cogghe is born in Mouscron, France and left it with his family in 1863 to go to Roubaix.

Cogghe studied at the Art Academy of Roubaix before going to the Fine Arts School of Paris in the workshop of Cabanel.

Cogghe was awarded the price of Roma from the Fine Arts Royal Academy in Anvers in 1880 and takes the way of an academic painter.

Rémy Cogghe exhibits his works quite regularly at the Artistic Salon of Roubaix-Tourcoing, where he shows in particular the artworks of his which have bearing with his local sights and meetings.

In 1885, he definitely settles down in Roubaix. Cogghe will find inspiration in this city's life.

The Painter Cogghe feels like he has got to give an account of the culture and popular sociable ways of there, always studying everyday life scenes.

This way, Cogghe paints the Combat des  Coqs (1889), the "Bain de Pied Inattendu" (unexpected feetbath in 1895) and the "Jeu de Bourles en Flandre" (1911), artworks which now are displayed at the Swimming Pool  Museum in Roubaix.

Cogghe also paints scenes taken grom workers' life, and Italy , Belgium and Mediterraneum landscapes.