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François-Joseph Navez | Saint Cecilia of Rome - 1824. Oil on canvas.

Saint Cecilia of Rome (detail),

François-Joseph Navez | A Woman and a Turbaned Man in Despair with a Young Child - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

François-Joseph Navez | Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna - 1823 - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Jeunes filles à la fontaine donnant à boire à des voyageurs, costumes des environs de fundi - (Young girls at the fountain giving water to travelers, costumes from the surroundings of fundi) - 1848

François-Joseph Navez | Self portrait - 1854

Francois Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter. Navez was born in Charleroi. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.

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