Pieter Van Hanselaere

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Pieter van Hanselaere: Self-Portrait , Rome 1817
Pieter van Hanselaere:
Suzanna en de Ouderlingen , 1820

Pieter Van Hanselaere (born July 31, 1786 in Ghent ; † March 10, 1862 there ) was a Belgian portrait and history painter .

Life

Pieter Van Hanselaere received his first training from Pieter Van Huffel (1769–1844) at the Academy in Ghent, the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten . From 1809 he was in Paris at the Académie des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jacques-Louis David , where he received his training in classicist history painting.

In 1814, back in Belgium, he received the grand prize of the Academy in Ghent for his historical painting Abel's sacrifice . He became a member of the same in 1815 and went to Italy on a scholarship in 1816. During his stay in Rome, on the recommendation of Antonio Canova, he was appointed a member of the Accademia di San Luca and was appointed professor in 1821. For a few years he went to Naples, where he became court painter to the Neapolitan king and a busy portrait painter. In 1829 he returned to Ghent as a professor at the academy. His students included u. a. Cornelis Kimmel (1804–1877), Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans and Ford Madox Brown .

In 1844 he had finished a work from the history of the city of Ghent, a monumental work of 24 × 16 feet (approx. 7.2 × 4.8 meters). It showed Philipp van Artevelde and his army in the uprisings of 1381. Van Hanselaere never fully recovered from the negative reviews of the work and his disappointment with it.

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SURNAME Hanselaere, Pieter van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanselaere, Pierre van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1862
Place of death Ghent