Adèle Kindt (16 December 1804 – 8 May 1893)Paul De Zuttere, "Quelques remarques à propos de l'exposition '1770–1830: Autour du Néo-Classicisme en Belgique' et notes additionnelles au catalogue", ''Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle'', 13 (1986), p. 132. was a Belgian painter; known primarily for portraits and

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scenes.

Biography

Born in

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into a family that produced many female artists, Marie-Adélaïde Kindt was trained in drawing by engraver

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. She studied painting under Sophie Rude and

François-Joseph Navez François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and Genre art, genre scenes. Biography As the son of an alderman, in a privileged f ...

and was encouraged by

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.Creusen, Alexia, "Kindt, Marie-Adélaïde, dite Adèle" in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds), ''Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIX^e et XX^e siècles.'' Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2006. Although trained as a

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, Kindt produced work informed by

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. Her early works included many historical scenes. Her ''Épisode des journées de septembre 1830'', portraying a scene from the

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of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the

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. After the 1840s, Kindt painted much less ambitious works, largely portraiture and genre scenes. Although she adapted her style to suit the changing tastes of the public, she never recaptured the success of her early career. She died in

. Her date of death is usually said to have been in 1884, but this has also been described as a "stubborn error" that should be corrected to 8 May 1893. Her death was reported in the newspaper '' Le Patriote'' on 12 May 1893, in coverage of registrations of births, deaths and marriages in the city of Brussels. Her younger sisters Clara and Laurence were landscape painters, as was her sister-in-law Isabelle Kindt-Van Assche.

Gallery

File:Adèle Kindt - A portrait of a young girl and her dog.jpg, A portrait of a young girl and her dog, 1877 File:Adèle Kindt - De waarzegster - 3424 - Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.tiff, The Fortune Teller, 1828 File:Adèle Kindt - young girls in a white dress.jpg, A young girl in a white dress with a pink veil and flowers in her hair, holding a bird's nest with two eggs, 1853 File:Marie Adelaide Kindt - Faith, Hope and Charity - 1980.89 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg, Faith, Hope and Charity, 1840 File:Kindt, Paul en Virginie.jpg, Paul and Virginie, 1840

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1804 births 1893 deaths Belgian romantic painters 19th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian women painters {{Belgium-painter-stub