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PORTAELS, JEAN FRANCOIS (1818-1895)

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PORTAELS, See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1818-1895) , Belgian painter, was See also:born at See also:Vilvorde (See also:Brabant), in See also:Belgium, on the 3oth of See also:April 1818. His See also:father, a See also:rich See also:brewer, sent him to study in the See also:Brussels See also:Academy, and the director, Francois Navez, ,ere See also:long received him as a See also:pupil in his own studio. About 1841 Portaels went to See also:Paris, where he was kindly received by See also:Paul See also:Delaroche. Having returned to Belgium, he carried off the See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome in 1842. He then travelled through See also:Italy, See also:Greece, See also:Morocco, See also:Algeria, See also:Egypt, the See also:Lebanon, See also:Judaea, See also:Spain, See also:Hungary and See also:Norway. On his return to Belgium in 1847 Portaels succeeded H. Vanderhaert as director of the academy at See also:Ghent. In 1849 he married the daughter of his first See also:master, Navez, and in 185o settled at Brussels; but as he failed in obtaining the See also:post of director of the academy there, and wished, nevertheless, to carry, on the educational See also:work begun by his father-in-See also:law, he opened a private studio-school, which became of See also:great importance in the development of Belgian See also:art. He again made several journeys, spending some See also:time in Morocco; he came back to Brussels in 1874, and in 1878 obtained the directorship of the academy which had so long been the See also:object of his ambition. Portaels executed a vast number of See also:works. Decorative paintings in the See also:church of St Jacques-sur-Caudenberg; biblical scenes, such as " The Daughter of See also:Sion Reviled " (in the Brussels See also:Gallery), " The See also:Death of Judas," " The Magi travelling to See also:Bethlehem," " See also:Judith's See also:Prayer," and " The Drought in Judaea "; genre pictures, among which are " A See also:Box in the See also:Theatre at See also:Budapest " (Brussels Gallery), portraits of officials and of the fashionable See also:world, See also:Oriental scenes and, above all, pictures of See also:fancy See also:female figures and of See also:exotic See also:life. " His works are in See also:general full of a facile See also:grace, of which he is perhaps too lavish," wrote See also:Theophile See also:Gautier.

Yet his pleasing and abundant productions as a painter do not constitute Portaels's crowning merit. The high See also:

place his name will fill in the See also:history of contemporary Belgian art is due to his See also:influence as a learned and clear-sighted instructor, who formed, among many others, the painters E. See also:Wauters and E. Agneesens, the sculptor Ch. See also:van der Stappen, and the architect Licot. He died at Brussels on the 8th of See also:February 1895. See E. L. de Taeye, Peintres belges contemporains; J. du Jardin, L'Art flamand. (F.

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