Frédéric Théodore Faber, a Belgian landscape and

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

, born at Brussels in 1782, was first instructed by his father, but in 1799 he went to Antwerp, and studied under Balthasar Paul Ommeganck. He afterwards established at Brussels a china manufactory, and abandoned painting on canvas for painting on porcelain. He also etched upwards of a hundred plates of landscapes and animals, some after his own designs, and others after Ommeganck, De Roy, and Van Assche. He died in 1844. A significant set of pieces painted by this virtuoso is exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts François Duesberg (Mons - Belgium).

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* 1782 births 1844 deaths Belgian painters Artists from Brussels Painters from Antwerp {{Belgium-painter-stub