Jean-François Portaels

1818–1895 · Realism

Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and Orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He is regarded as the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school. During his time, he was praised as the premier painter of 'everyday elegance and feminine grace.' Through his art, teaching, and his leadership of the Académie Royale in Brussels, he exerted an important influence on the next generation of Belgian artists, including his pupil Théo van Rysselberghe.

28 paintings

• The tempest (1900)
• A Trieste flower girl (1853)
• Double Portrait, the Betrothed (1870)
• Portrait of Prince Baudouin in rifle uniform (1891)
• Portrait of Archduke Maximilian in uniform (1857)
• Portrait of H.R.H. the Count of Flanders (1858)
• The witch (1850)
• After the simoom (1850)
• Landscape in Egypt (1850)
• Odalisque on the terrace at dusk (1850)
• Sweet flowers (1850)
• The story teller in Tétouan (1850)
• The tambourine player in repose (1850)
• The yellow butterfly (1850)
• Milanese lady with a fan, 1857 (1857)
• A Sicilian woman (1861)
• A Sicilian bride (1861)
• Souvenir of the Orient (1870)
• Maiden of the harvest (1870)
• Portrait of a young North-African woman (1874)
• Young woman with gloves (1850)
• An Oriental Beauty (1877)
• Spring (1879)
• The Procession (1850)
• Sisters (1860)
• Paul Déroulède (1877)
• The writer Hendrik Conscience (1870)
• Self-portrait (1860)