François-Joseph Navez
Belgian neoclassical painter and portraitist
François-Joseph Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter. Navez was born in Charleroi. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects. The orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law). Jean Carolus, the Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors, was a protege of François-Joseph Navez. Navez was elected a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1826, he became a supernumerary associate in 1841 and resigned in 1851. He died in 1869 in Brussels.
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Artworks by this artist
- Scène De Musique 1819
- A Woman and a Turbaned Man in Despair with a Young Child 1807[-]69
- Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist 1848
- Deux italiennes 1821
- Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna 1823
- Die Spinnerinnen von Fondi 1845
- The Massacre of the Innocents 1824
- Portrait of a woman, traditionally identified as Henriette Lousbergs 1796-1827
- Hagar in the Wilderness 1819
- An Italian scene; the flute player 1833
- Portrait of Lady Huart-Chappel
- The return of the blind man 1832
- The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
- Self Portrait 1854
- The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus 1829
- Portrait of Léonard Pierre Joseph, Viscount du Bus de Gisignies, Commissioner-General 1836
- Jeunes filles à la fontaine donnant à boire à des voyageurs, costumes des environs de fundi 1848
- A Musical Group 1821
- Saint Cecilia Of Rome 1824