Portrait of Jacques-Louis David
1787-1869
French
Francois Joseph Navez gallery
Francois-Joseph Navez (Charleroi, 1787 - Brussels, 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.
A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, he spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822.
He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.
The orientalist painter Jean-Francois Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law). 1817
Oil on panel,
67 x 56 cm
Painting ID:: 43687
Portrait of Jacques-Louis David
French Academic Painter,
1779-1838 1824 Oil on canvas, 88 x 75 cm Musee du Louvre, Paris David's features continued to be twisted by the growth of his tumour; the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott said that the painter's face was the most hideous he had ever seen
Painting ID:: 62823
Jerome-Martin Langlois French Academic Painter,
1779-1838 Portrait of Jacques-Louis David 1824 Oil on canvas, 88 x 75 cm Musee du Louvre, Paris David's features continued to be twisted by the growth of his tumour; the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott said that the painter's face was the most hideous he had ever seen
