Joseph Paelinck, (20 March 1781 – 19 June 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.

Biography

Paelinck attended the

Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in Belgium. It is now part of the Hogeschool Gent. History The Academy was founded in 174 ...

and then with Jacques-Louis David in

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, where he painted in 1804 ''A Judgment of Paris'', which earned him his first Academy Art Award for Ghent. After he had worked there a short time as a teacher, he went to Rome and stayed there for five years. He painted, among other things: ''Rome under Augustus'' for the

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and the ''Discovery of the Cross'' for St. Michael's Church in

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

. He was later a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. His many pupils included Charles Baugniet, François Antoine Bodumont, Edouard de Bièfve, Élisa de Gamond, Félix De Vigne, Jean Joseph Geens, Jozef Geirnaert,

Joseph Meganck Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

, Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies, Alfred Stevens, Joseph Cohen de Vries and Abraham Johannes Zeeman.Biographical details
at the

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

Paintings

File:Joseph Paelinck (Belgian - The Holy Family - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Holy Family'', c. 1819-20 File:William I of the Netherlands.jpg, ''

William I of the Netherlands William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who went ...

'' by Joseph Paelinck, Rijksmuseum, 1819 File:Joseph Paelinck - The Dance of the Muses.jpg, ''The Dance of the Muses'', 1832 File:Joseph paelinck madonna and child.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'' File:Mechelen Sint-Katelijnekerk Paelinck Vlucht naar Egypte.JPG, ''Flight to Egypt'' File:De vinding van het Heilig Kruis, Joseph Paelinck, 1808, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1970-AD.jpg, ''The Find of the Holy Cross'', 1808,

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 ...

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* * 18th-century Flemish painters 19th-century Flemish painters 1781 births 1839 deaths Artists from Brussels {{Belgium-painter-stub