Jacques-Albert Senave
Jacques-Albert Senave (1758–1823) was a Flanders, Flemish painter mainly active in Paris during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known for his Genre art, genre scenes, history paintings, landscapes, city views, market scenes and portraits.Jacques Albert Sénave
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

He was born as the son of a baker on 12 September 1758 in Lo, Belgium, Lo, then in the Austrian Netherlands. He began his artistic training with the encouragement of Mr. Hennekin, a canon at the abbey of his native town who had seen his drawings. The canon egged on his parents to send him to study at the academy in Dunkirk. As his family was poor, he was sent to a baker in Dunkirk whom he was to assist in the bakery during the day, so that he could practice his art at the academy in the evenings. As ...
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