François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 – 12 October 1869) was a

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Biography

Navez was born in

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

. He was a pupil of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

. He spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the

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in Brussels. He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects. The orientalist painter

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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

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Main works

* 1816 : ''Sainte Véronique de Milan'',

Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent The Museum of Fine Arts ( nl, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK) an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst). The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks ...

. * 1816 : ''La Famille de Hemptinne'',

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, Belgium.

* 1819 : ''Scène de musique'',

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. * 1821 : ''Scène de brigands'', Private collection. * 1829 : ''La Nymphe Salmacis et Hermaphrodite'',

. * 1830 : ''Songe d'Athalie'',

, Belgium. * 1831 : ''Portrait d'un jeune homme songeur'' *1832 : ''Portrait of Theodore-Joseph Jonet and his two daughters,''

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. * 1836 : ''Portrait de David'',

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. * 1844 : ''Notre-Dame des Affligés'', Chiesa di S. Antonio, a

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

. * ''Trois Dames de Gand'',

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Gallery

File:1824 Navez Das Massaker der Unschuldigen anagoria.JPG, '' Massacre of the Innocents'', 1824 File:NAVEZ Francois Joseph The Nymph Salmacis And Hermaphroditus.jpg, ''The Nymph

Salmacis Salmacis ( grc, Σαλμακίς) was an atypical Naiad nymph of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Culture of Greece, Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness. Mythology Ovid's version Salmacis' attempted ...

and

Hermaphroditus In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos (; grc, Ἑρμαφρόδιτος, Hermaphróditos, ) was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably handsome boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted to rape an ...

'', 1829 File:Navez, Francois-Joseph — Die Spinnerinnen von Fondi — 1845.JPG, ''The Spinners of

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'', 1845 File:François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) - Portret van Jacques-Louis David (1817) - MSK Brussel 25-02-2011 13-15-36.jpg, ''Portrait of
Jacques-Louis David'', 1817 File:Théodore Joseph Jonet and his two daughters by François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869).jpg, ''Théodore Joseph Jonet and his two daughters'', 1832

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.

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* 1787 births 1869 deaths Artists from Charleroi 19th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian male artists Belgian neoclassical painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Burials at Laeken Cemetery Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts faculty {{Belgium-painter-stub