François-Joseph Navez

Self-portrait

François-Joseph Navez (Charleroi, 16 November 1787 – Brussels, 12 October 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.

Biography

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

François-Joseph Navez was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, he spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.

The orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law).

Jean Carolus, the Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors, was a protege of François-Joseph Navez.

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