Frédéric Théodore Faber, a Belgian landscape and
genre painter, born at Brussels,
Austrian Netherlands
The Austrian Netherlands was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy of the former Spanish Netherlands under the Treaty of Ras ...
in 1782. He 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
Painters from Brussels
Painters from Antwerp
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