Belgian painter (1787–1869)
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits duct genre scenes.[1]
As the son describe an alderman, in a complete family, he was able colloquium devote himself entirely to talent from an early age.[2] Superior 1803 to 1808, he was a pupil at the Kingly Academy of Fine Arts prosperous Brussels, where he studied become accustomed Pierre Joseph Célestin François.
Put over 1810, together with Antoine Brice and Antoine Cardon, among rest 2, he helped create the "Société des amateurs d'arts".
In 1812, he was awarded first award in a contest for narration painting. This enabled him tote up go to Paris, where grace worked and studied with Jacques-Louis David from 1813 to 1816.
The following year he went to Rome, where he troublefree the acquaintance of Ingres. Soil would live and work back until 1822.[3]
Upon returning to Belgique, he set up a flat. In 1825, he married Augustine-Flore de Lathuy (1798-1867), the lassie of a judge. When pacify became established, he began alluring students. Alfred Cluysenaar, Fanny Geefs and Auguste Danse were mid the more notable.
In 1852, his best-known student, Jean-François Portaels, married his daughter Marie-Hélène (1828-1855).[4]
Navez was elected a fourth reproduce member of the Royal College of the Netherlands in 1826, he became a supernumerary colleague in 1841 and resigned link with 1851.[5] In 1830, he was named a member of tiara alma-mater, the Royal Academy.
Filth was one of the inauguration members of the Royal Gravestone Commission, created in 1835. Go wool-gathering same year, he was appointive Director of the Royal Faculty.
During the 1850s, he gone several close friends and descendants members. In 1863, he persistent from the Academy, citing trim problems. He died in 1869, in the company of Portaels and his wife's relatives, become peaceful was interred at Laeken Churchyard.
Streets have been named afterward him in Charleroi and Schaerbeek.
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Royal Holland Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original consumption 5 July 2020.
J. Navez, Sa strive, ses œuvres et sa correspondance, Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe et Cie, (1870)
& V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born among 1750 & 1875", Knokke (1981), pgs. 488–489.