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| Jean-Baptiste van Eycken (1809–1853) | ||||||||||
| Born in Brussels, Van Eycken was a Belgian painter known for history, religious, and genre works, particularly linked to the 19th-century revival of religious art in Belgium. He enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1830, studying under François-Joseph Navez and winning first prize in 1835. Between 1837 and 1839, he travelled to France and Italy, where he drew inspiration from Paul Delaroche, Jean-Victor Schnetz, and the works of Raphael and Fra Angelico. Upon returning to Brussels, he was recognised as one of the country’s leading artists. His monumental religious decorations, especially in the chapel of Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours, were among the first large-scale painted works of this kind in Belgium, combining academic precision with devotional sensibility. Van Eycken became a professor at the Brussels Academy in 1839 and a member in 1848, shaping a younger generation of Belgian painters. His style merged the academic discipline inherited from Navez (a pupil of Jacques-Louis David) with the softer, more devout qualities he absorbed from studying Fra Angelico and Raphael in Italy. He died in Schaerbeek, near Brussels. | ||||||||||
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