- Pierre-François Brice
Pierre-François Brice (baptised
26 November 1714 ,Saint-Venant ,France -13 May 1794 ,Brussels , then in theAustrian Netherlands ) was a French artist who spent most of his career in what is now Belgium.Life
Around 1735 he established himself in Brussels, then capital of the Austrian Netherlands, to devote himself to painting. He was received into the city's Corporation of Painters as a master during 1743-1744. He became painter-decorator to the court of
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and painted several interior schemes in his Brussels palace, such as those "paysages chinois" mentioned in the archives [Study on the Brice family of painters by the art historian Paul De Zuttere, "l'Intermédiaire des Généalogistes", Bruxelles, n°190, 1977] .Pierre-François Brice was the father of the painter and engraver
Antoine Brice (1752-1817) and the grandfather ofIgnace Brice (1795-1866), the "David bruxellois".References
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