Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes
Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes (also Maes-Canini, born September 30, 1794 in Ghent , † April 7, 1856 in Rome ) was a Belgian genre painter who worked in Italy.
Maes studied at the Academy of Ghent. He first exhibited at the city's fair in 1810. He won the prizes of all the competitions he participated in and received a scholarship from the city of Ghent in 1820. Thanks to the Belgian Rome Prize he received in 1821, he first visited Paris with Frans Vervloet (1795–1872) and then went on to Italy . In 1822 he copied works by old masters in the Uffizi Museum. In 1824 he settled in Rome. In 1827 he married the daughter of the engraver Bartolomeo Canini. To Italianize his name, he added the last name of his wife Canini to his surname Maes. The couple had two sons: Jacques-Jean and Lieven-Antoon. The first, Jacques-Jean called Giacomo, born in 1828, became a painter like his father.
Maes kept in touch with his hometown and regularly sent works to Belgian salons.
literature
- Maes, Jan Baptist Lodewyck . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929.
- Maes, Jan Baptist Lodewyck in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (Online)
- Christiaan Cramm: De levens en works of Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van den vroegsten tot op onzen tijd 1857 (Online)
Web links
- Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Bénézit Dictionary of Artists (Online)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maes, Jan Baptist Lodewyck |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maes-Canini, Jan Baptist Lodewyck |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1856 |
| Place of death | Rome |