François-Joseph Navez

Shepherd family in the Campagna

François-Joseph Navez (born November 16, 1787 in Charleroi , † October 12, 1869 in Brussels ) was a neoclassical Belgian painter and art teacher.

From 1803 he studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles under Pierre-Joseph Celestin François and won the first prize for history painting in 1812, which enabled him to study in Paris from June 1813 to 1816 in the atelier of Jacques-Louis David . During his stay in Paris he visited the Louvre , where he made more than 150 studies after the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck . He spent four years in Italy between 1817 and 1821 . Then he settled in Brussels. In addition to portraiture, he created many mythological and historical scenes. In his studio in Brussels he trained many students, such as Jan Adam Kruseman . One of them, the orientalist Jean-François Portaels , married his daughter in 1852.

In 1810 Navez founded a society of art lovers together with other classical painters such as Antoine Brice , Antoine Cardon and Charles Verhulst . He was director of the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles from 1835 to 1862 . He became a founding member of the Royal Commission for Monuments, founded in 1835.

He was buried in the Laeken cemetery.

literature

• Navez, François Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
• François Joseph Navez. In: Biografisch portaal van Nederland (digitized version ) .
• S. Valcke: François-Joseph Navez et les peintres primitifs. In: Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde, 27 (1988), pp. 80–87.

Web links

Commons : François-Joseph Navez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• François Joseph Navez. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)