Jan Frans van Dael (1764 – 1840)

• Was a Flemish painter and lithographer.
• Jan Frans van Dael was born in Antwerp as the son of a joiner.
• He studied architectural drawing at the Antwerp Academy.
• He won the Academy's first prizes for architecture in 1784 and 1785. 

• He travelled to Paris in 1786 where he resided there in the artists' accommodations at the Louvre.

• From 1806 until 1813 he worked as a state-protected artist in a studio in the Sorbonne.

• He regularly submitted work to the Paris Salon between 1793 and 1833 as well as to Salons in the Low Countries.

• Many commissions he secured from the Empresses Josephine and Marie-Louise Bonaparte as well as Restoration kings Louis XVIII and Charles X.

• Van Dael was a member of the Academies of Antwerp and Amsterdam.

• He collected the works of flower artists painters Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch and Jan van Huysum.

• His pupils were Jean Benner-Fries, Elise Bruyère, Laurent Coste, Vicomtesse Iphigénie Decaux-Milet-Moreau, Henriëtte Geertruida Knip, Elisa-Emilie Le Mire, Auguste Piquet de Brienne, Christiaan van Pol, Adèle Riché, and Jean Ulrich Tournier.

• He died in Paris in 1840 and was buried in the cemetery of Père Lachaise by the side of his friend van Spaendonck.

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