Joseph Quinaux (; 29 March 1822 – 24 May 1895) was a
Belgian painter, known especially for his
landscape
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s.
Quinaux was born in
Namen. He was a lecturer and teacher of painting at the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels from 1876 until his death in
Schaerbeek
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in 1895, conducting the landscape class. Among his pupils were
Hippolyte Boulenger and
Isidore Verheyden
Isidore Verheyden (24 January 1846, in Antwerp – 1 November 1905, in Elsene) was a Belgium, Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still life.
He was the son of painter Jean-François Verheyden; his first teacher at the Académie Roya ...
. The Rue Quinaux in Schaerbeek was named after him.
References
Dictionary of Belgian painters
External links
List of works
1822 births
1895 deaths
Belgian landscape painters
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
Academic staff of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels
People from Namur (city)
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