- Antoine Brice
Antoine Brice (
26 May 1752 ,Brussels , then in theAustrian Netherlands -23 January 1817 , Brussels) was a Belgian painter.Life
Antoine Brice was the son of the painter
Pierre-François Brice , working in the entourage ofPrince Charles Alexander of Lorraine , and his own son Ignace also became a painter. Antoine began his training as a painter under his father at the Brussels Court and was made a master by the Corporation of Painters of Brussels on 5 February 1783. In the meantime he had also followed a more classical training at the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Brussels, where he won first prize in 1776. This training and the entourage of the governor-general's court led him, at the end of the 18th century and the end of the Austrian regime in Brussels, to become a kind of official painter to the city's aristocratic circles.He became a professor at the Brussels academy and there headed a course on classical art and the principals of drawing. His students included
Jean Baptiste Madou . In 1810 he joined with the paintersAntoine Cardon ,Charles Verhulst andFrançois-Joseph Navez to found a "Société des Amateurs d'Arts".ource
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