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François Joseph Navez Biography
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1787 |
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Born in Charleroi, Belgium
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1808 |
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Admitted to the Brussels Academy, in the class of Pierre Joseph Celestin Francois, a famous Belgian artist and teacher.
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1812 |
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Won the first Grand Prix for painting at the Salon of Ghent
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1813 |
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The Beaux Arts Society took Navez under its wing and sent him to Paris to study in the studio of Jacques-Louis David
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1814 |
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The fall of the Empire caused Navez to lose his scholarship
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1814 - 1816 |
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Remains in Paris to continue his apprenticeship with David, even following the master in his exile, first to Berlin, then to Brussels
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1817 - 1821 |
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The Beaux Arts Society sponsored his study travel to Rome where he connected with his fellow students from his days in Paris in the atelier of David: Jean-Auguste Ingres (1780-1867), Francois-Marius Granet, Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870), Leon Cogniet (1794-1880)
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1821 |
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Returns to Brussels and opens a studio
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1830 |
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Appointed director of the Brussels Academy
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2006
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Bénézit Dictionary of Artists, Emmanuel Bénézit (Gründ, Paris, 2006)
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2005
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Denis Coekelberghs et al's Les Peintres Belges à Rome aux XVIIIième et XIXième siècle. Bilan, Apports Nouveaux et Propositions. (Historic Belgian Institute in Rome, Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2005)
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2003
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Dictionnaire des Artistes Plasticiens de Belgique des XIXième et XXième Siècles, Paul Piron (Art in Belgium, Ohain, 2003)
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2003
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Pierre Cabanne and Gérald Schurr's Dictionnaire des Petit Maîtres de la Peinture 1820-1920 (Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2003)
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2000
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Willem G. Flippo's Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters (International Art Press, Antwerp, 2000)
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2000
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Beeldend Benelux, P.M.J.E. Jacobs (Stichting Studiecentrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Tilburg, Holland, 2000)
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1999
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Denis Coekelberghs et al's François-Joseph Navez, La Nostalgie de l'Italie (Snoeck-Ducaju, Ghent, Belgium, 1999)
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1995
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Dictionnaire Biographique Illustré des Artistes en Belgique depuis 1830 (Editions Arto, Bruxelles, 1995)
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1995
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Le Dictionnaire des Peintres Belges du XIVième Siècle à Nos Jours (La Renaissance du Livre, Bruxelles, 1995)
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1981
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P. and V. Berko's Dictionary of Belgian Painters Born Between 1750 and 1875 (Laconti, Brussels, 1981)
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1950
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Pierre Bautier (et al)'s Dictionnaire des Peintres (Larcier, Brussels, 1950)
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1920
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Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, Thieme und Becker (Verlag von E.A. Seeman, Leipzig, 1920)
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