Balthasar Paul Ommeganck (1755–1826)

• Was a Flemish painter of landscapes and animals.
• He was born in Antwerp in 1755 as the fourth child of Paulus Ommeganck and Barbara Laenen.
• He was registered in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Hendricus Josephus Antonissen.
• On 26 June 1781 he married Petronilla Isabella Maria Jacoba Parrin in Antwerp.
• They had two sons and seven daughters, one of which was the animal painter Johanna Maria Ommeganck.

• He was one of the founders in 1788 of a society of artists known as the Konstmaatschappij (the 'Art Society').

• The first exhibition of the society was held in Antwerp in 1789.
• Ommeganck contributed 4 works to this first exhibition.
• In 1799 a painting of Ommeganck won the first prize for landscapes in Paris.
• He was also a member of the Academies of Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent, Munich and Vienna.
• His students included Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Frédéric Théodore Faber, Pieter Martinus Gregoor, Jacob van Kouwenhoven, Hendrik Aarnout Myin, Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Adrianus de Visser, Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, Julien-Joseph Ducorron and his sister Maria Jacoba Ommeganck.

• He died in Antwerp.

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