François-Joseph Navez

François-Joseph Navez (Charleroi, 1787 - Brussels, 1869) is a Belgian painter neo-classic.

Raise with Brussels of the painter Pierre-Joseph Célestin François, then to Paris, from 1813 to 1816, Jacques-Louis David, it spends then four years in Italy between 1817 and 1821. With his comrades Victor Schnetz and Léopold Robert, he invents the scene of kind to Italian the.

He excels in the art of the portrait, where he acquires his fame. He paints also many mythological and historical scenes.

He founds in 1810, with other traditional painters of reputation like Antoine Brice, Antoine Cardon or Charles Verhulst, a Company of the Art lovers.

Director of the royal Academy of the Art schools of Brussels of 1835 with 1862, it trains many artists, of which the orientalist Jean-François Portaels (his Gendre) like Alfred Stevens.

He is founding member of the royal Commission of the Monuments created in 1835.

A street bears its name to Schaerbeek and Charleroi.

Works

  • Dream of Athalie , 1830, Museum of the Art schools of Brussels
  • Salmacis Nymph and Hermaphrodite , 1829, Museum of Ghent
  • Michel Gerard and his family, Museum Mans
  • Three Ladies of Ghent , Louvre
  • the Family of Hemptinne , 1816, Museum of the Art schools of Brussels

See Too

  • Mathieu Van Brée (1773-1839)
  • Verboeckhoven (1799-1881)
  • Ferdinand de Braeckeleer (1792-1883)
  • Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796-1877)
  • Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865)
  • Gustave Wappers (1803-1874)
  • Nicaise de Keyser (1813-1887)
  • Henri de Caisine (1799-1852)
  • Louis Gallait (1810-1887)

Bibliographical references

  • Denis Coekelberghs, Alain Jacobs and Pierre Loze, Catalog exposure, François-Jospeh Navez, the nostalgia of Italy , Musée of the Art schools of Charleroi, Musée of the Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée of Coutances, 2000.
  • Denis Coekelberghs and Eric Bertin, “Letters of Alexandre Bénard, architect, painter and art lover, in François-Joseph Navez (1822-1829), Some new contributions over Ingres and his time” the books of History of Art, pages 95-117, n° 4,2006, I.S.S. NR. 1763-0894,

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