Michel Ghislain Stapleaux (26 June 1799, in
Brussels
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– 1881, in
Gien
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Gien is on the river Loire, from Orléans. Gien station has rail connections to Montargis, Nevers and Paris. The town was bought ...
) was a Belgian portraitist and history painter. He was the husband of the flower painter Louise Schavije and won two gold medals for history painting, in the competitions at Brussels in 1822 and Antwerp in 1823.
Life
He studied under the French painter
Jacques-Louis David
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and was his last assistant during his years of exile in Brussels. His main collaboration with his master was ''
Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces'' - he organised its exhibition in Paris in 1824. He also completed David's ''
The Anger of Achilles
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One of the last of David's history paintings, it shows the moment in G ...
'' and was put in charge of supervising the engravings after ''Speech in the tennis court'', ''
The Coronation of Napoleon
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'' and ''
Leonidas at Thermopylae''. He was present at David's death, took part in his funeral in January 1826 with
Joseph Paelinck
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Biography
Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where he painted in 1804 ''A Judgment ...
and
François-Joseph Navez
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and Genre art, genre scenes.
Biography
As the son of an alderman, in a privileged f ...
and placed David's palette and paintbrushes on his tomb.
In 1834 he was commissioned to paint the portraits of
Jérôme Bonaparte
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's family in
Stuttgart
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as official painter to the king of Wurtemberg - he received the grand medal of merit of Wurtemberg in 1839.
Works
Sources
*Johannes Immerzeel2 & C. H. Immerzeel
''De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders'' 1842, p. 108
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1799 births
1881 deaths
Belgian portrait painters
Belgian painters