Jean François Portaels

Born: 1818

Death: 1895

Biography:

Jean-François Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Flemish orientalist painter and director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Portaels was born in Vilvoorde. His father, a rich brewer, sent him to study at the Royal Academy, whose director, François Navez, took him on soon after in his own workshop. About 1841 Portaels w...