Jan Frans Eliaerts - Bouquet of Flowers in a Sculpted Vase - WGA07479

Jan Frans Eliaerts (30 December 1761 - 17 May 1848) was a Flemish painter of animals, flowers, and fruit who migrated to France where he was active most of his life.Jan Frans Eliaerts
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

Eliaerts was born in Deurne near

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. He studied at the

Academy of Antwerp The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Young ...

. Here he became acquainted with Georges Frédéric Ziesel and

Pieter Faes Pieter Faes or Peeter Faes (14 July 1750 – 22 December 1814) was a Flemish painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. He worked in a decorative style close to that of Jan van Huysum.Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Walter A. Li ...

who specialised in flower pieces like him. He moved to Paris where he was a teacher at the Institut du Légion d'Honneur in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.Jean-François Eliaerts
at the Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 6, p. 537-538 He regularly took part in the Paris salons and won various awards (silver medals in Lille, 1822, and Douai in 1827 and 1831). He also created cartons for tapestries of the Gobelin factory. At the end of his life he decided to return to Antwerp where he died.

Work

His flower paintings are in the tradition of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

tradition of flower painting developed by Daniel Seghers,

Jan Philip van Thielen Jan Philip van Thielen or Jan Philips van Thielen (1618 in Mechelen – 1667 in Booischot) was a Flemish painter who specialized in flower pieces and garland paintings. He was a regular collaborator with leading Flemish and Dutch figure pain ...

and

Jan van Huysum Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held ...

and show parallels with the work of

Jan Frans van Dael Jan Frans van Dael or Jean-François van Dael (27 May 1764 – 20 March 1840) was a Flemish painter and lithographer specializing in still lifes of flowers and fruit. He had a successful career in Paris where his patrons included the Empress ...

. Together with Georges Frédéric Ziesel and Pieter Faes he was the principal heir of this tradition in Belgium. Eliaerts also painted some genre pieces, which were set in a scene with flowers. The majority of his works are located in France. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp has a flower piece by him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eliaerts, Jan Frans 1761 births 1848 deaths Flemish still life painters People from Deurne, Belgium Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni 18th-century Flemish painters 19th-century Flemish painters