01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 42

Jean-François Portaels, (Belgian, 1818-1895)

The tambourine player in repose, c. between 1840 and 1895

Oil on cradled panel

31 x 40in (78.8 x 101.6cm)

Private collection

Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) 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. He was praised in his time 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.

Portaels traveled extensively on a five-year excursion through Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Greece, Hungary  More on Jean-François Portaels

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