Pierre-François Brice (26 November 1714 (baptised) – 13 May 1794) was a French artist who spent most of his career in what is now Belgium.

Life

Brice was born at Saint-Venant, France. Around 1735, he established himself in

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, then capital of the Austrian Netherlands, to devote himself to painting. He was received into the city's Corporation of Painters as a master during 1743–1744. He became painter-decorator to the court of

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and painted several interior schemes in his Brussels palace, such as those " paysages chinois" mentioned in the archives.Study on the Brice family of painters by the art historian Paul De Zuttere, "l'Intermédiaire des Généalogistes", Bruxelles, n°190, 1977 He died in Brussels. Pierre-François Brice was the father of the painter and engraver Antoine Brice (1752–1817) and the grandfather of Ignace Brice (1795–1866), the "

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bruxellois".

References

1714 births 1794 deaths People from Pas-de-Calais Belgian painters {{Flemish-painter-stub