Joseph Paelinck, (20 March 1781 – 19 June 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.

Biography

Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with

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, 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

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and the ''Discovery of the Cross'' for St. Michael's Church in

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. He was later a professor at the

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. His many pupils included Charles Baugniet, François Antoine Bodumont, Edouard de Bièfve, Élisa de Gamond, Félix De Vigne, Jean Joseph Geens, Jozef Geirnaert, Joseph Meganck, Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies, Alfred Stevens, Joseph Cohen de Vries and Abraham Johannes Zeeman.Biographical details
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Paintings

File:Joseph Paelinck (Belgian - The Holy Family - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Holy Family'', c. 1819-20 File:William I of the Netherlands.jpg, ''

William I of the Netherlands William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was King of the Netherlands and List of monarchs of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840. Born as the son of William V, Prince of Orange, ...

'' by Joseph Paelinck, Rijksmuseum, 1819 File:Joseph Paelinck - The Dance of the Muses.jpg, ''The Dance of the Muses'', 1832 File:Joseph paelinck madonna and child.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'' File:Mechelen Sint-Katelijnekerk Paelinck Vlucht naar Egypte.JPG, ''Flight to Egypt'' File:De vinding van het Heilig Kruis, Joseph Paelinck, 1808, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1970-AD.jpg, ''The Find of the Holy Cross'', 1808, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

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* * 18th-century Flemish painters 19th-century Flemish painters 1781 births 1839 deaths Painters from Brussels {{Belgium-painter-stub