François-Joseph Navez

Self-portrait

François-Joseph Navez (Charleroi, 16 November 1787 – Brussels, 12 October 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.

Biography

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

François-Joseph Navez 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.

Main works

• 1816 : Sainte Véronique de Milan, Art Museum, Ghent.
• 1816 : La Famille de Hemptinne, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1821 : Scène de brigands, Private collection.
• 1829 : La Nymphe Salmacis et Hermaphrodite, Art Museum, Ghent.
• 1830 : Songe d'Athalie, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1831 : Portrait d'un jeune homme songeur
• 1836 : Portrait de David, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
• 1844 : Notre-Dame des Affligés, Chiesa di S. Antonio, a Charleroi.
• Trois Dames de Gand, Louvre, Paris.

Gallery

• 
  Massacre of the Innocents
• 
  The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
• 
  The Spinners of Fondi
• 
  Portrait of
  Jacques-Louis David

Sources

• P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 488-489.
• P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 511, illustrations p. 421.

External links

• Media related to François-Joseph Navez at Wikimedia Commons