Jan Baptiste de Jonghe

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Jan Baptiste de Jonghe: Pasture in the Ardennes

Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (also Jean-Baptiste de Jonghe, born January 8, 1785 in Kortrijk , † October 14, 1844 in Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek ) was a Flemish - Belgian painter and lithographer . In his paintings there are often landscapes with forest scenes with animals. In his graphic work he also thematized Dutch cityscapes. From 1826 he was an art professor at the Academy of Kortrijk, from 1841 at the Academy of Antwerp .

Life

Jan Baptiste de Jonghe was born on January 8, 1785 in Kortrijk. He began his training as a painter at the art academy in his hometown. Around 1805 he moved to the Art Academy of Antwerp to continue his studies with the neoclassical painter Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck . This promoted his talent for landscape representations. In 1812, de Jonghe received the first prize for landscape painting from the Société des Beaux-Arts in Ghent for the painting The Coming Storm . In the following years he exhibited regularly in art salons in both the Netherlands and France. It is unclear whether he went abroad to study. De Jonghe's stays in France, England, Scotland and Italy are presumed. Influenced by the Dutch painting of the 17th century - especially by Jan van Goyen and Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael - he mostly chose landscape views of his Flemish homeland as a motif. Often there are forest scenes with wild or domestic animals in his pictures. The less common representations of people in his works come mostly from his painter colleague Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven . From 1823 to 1824 he was one of the collaborators of the series of lithographs with Dutch views published by Dewasme in Tournai under the title Collection historique des vues principales des Pays-Bas . Some of his architectural drawings were also created here.

In 1826 he was appointed art professor at the Kortrijk Academy. Here he published his textbook on landscape drawing Principes de paysages dessinés d'après nature et exécutés sur pierre . Laurent Herman Redig (1822–1861) and Louis de Winter (1819–1900) were among his students . In 1840 he was commissioned by the Belgian King Leopold I to create six Ardennes landscapes . In the successor of Ommeganck he worked from 1841 to 1843 as an academy professor in Antwerp. Jan Baptiste de Jonghe died on October 14, 1844 in Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek. His son Gustave Léonard de Jonghe was also a painter.

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SURNAME Jonghe, Jan Baptiste de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonghe, Jean-Baptiste de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Kortrijk
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1844
Place of death Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek