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Jan Frans van Dael
Flemish painter
Jan Frans van Dael or Jean-François van Dael (27 May 1764 – 20 March 1840) was a Flemish painter and lithographer specializing in still lifes of flowers and fruit.
He had a successful career in Paris where his patrons included the Empresses of Empire France as well as the kings of Restoration France. His work stands in the Flemish and Dutch tradition of flower painting with a sober composition and attention to detail to which he added a French-inspired decorative monumentality.[1]
Life
Jan Frans van Dael was born in Antwerp as the son of a joiner.[2] He studied architectural drawing at the Antwerp Academy.
He won the academy's first prizes for architecture in 1784 and 1785.[3]
He travelled to Paris in 1786 where he resided there in the artists' accommodations at the Louvre, near artists Piat Joseph Sauvage, Gerard van Spaendonck en Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
From 1806 until 1813 he worked as a state-pr