Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes (1794 - 1856)

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Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes

Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes was a Belgian genre painter active in Italy. Maes studied at the Academy of Ghent. He exhibited for the first time at that city's fair in 1810. He won prizes in all the competitions he entered and in 1820 received a grant from the city of Ghent. Thanks to the Belgian Rome Prize received in 1821, he first visited Paris and then went on to Italy. In 1822 he copied works by old masters in the Uffizi Museum. In 1824 he settled in Rome. Maes kept in touch with his hometown and regularly sent works to Belgian salons. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Date and place of birt:30 september 1794, Gent, Flanders
Date and place of death:7 april 1856, Rome, Italy
Period of activity: XIX century
Specialization:Animalist, Artist, Genre painter, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:Animalistic, Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Religious genre
Art style:Academism, Romanticism

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