Joseph Paelinck

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William I of the Netherlands by Joseph Paelinck, Rijksmuseum, 1819

Joseph Paelinck, (March 20, 1781-June 9, 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.

Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, 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 Quirinal Palace and the Discovery of the Cross for St. Michael's Church in Ghent. He was later a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Brussels.

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This article is based on a public domain text from Meyers encyclopedia, 4th Edition of 1888-1890.
Paintings by Joseph Paelinck at the BBC Your Paintings site

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Name	Joseph Paelinck
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Short description	Belgian painter
Date of birth	March 20, 1781
Place of birth	Oostakker
Date of death	June 9, 1839
Place of death	Brussels

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