Ignace Brice

Ignace Brice (2 April 1795–10 August 1866) was a neoclassical painter of genre, portraits and religious scenes from Brussels.

Career

Ignace Brice at first studied under his father,

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  The Poultryman, 1827, now in the Rijksmuseum.
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  Portrait of a woman with a feather hat, signed "Brice".
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  Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
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  Portrait of a nun holding a book
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  Portrait of Jean-Louis van Dievoet (1777-1854), secretary of the Belgian Supreme Court (1777-1854), oil painting by Ignace Brice, 61 x 70 cm, influenced by Jacques-Louis David.
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  Hortense Poelaert (1815-1900), sister of the architect Joseph Poelaert and wife of Eugène van Dievoet (1804-1858), oil painting by Ignace Brice, 1840. (71 cm x 85 cm)
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  "Portrait of Alphonse"
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  Portrait of his father-in-law Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet (1775-1862) signed "Brice 1856"
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  "Writer at his desk"
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  "Little girl holding flowers"

Works

• Lithographic
  portrait of Thérèse Langhendries, superior of the hôpital Saint-Jean de Bruxelles
• The young lady with her daughter in a garden, national Salon of 1842
• Portrait of Louis-Xavier Gomand (1803–1875)
• Portrait of Henri Joseph Meeûs, master-brewer, husband of Marie Madeleine van der Borcht.
• The Magician, oil on canvas, 120 x 108 cm.
• Portrait of Adrien Joseph Eugène Oorlof.
• Portrait of Hortense Poelaert (1815–1900), wife of Eugène van Dievoet (1804–1858), 1840, oil on canvas, 71 x 85 cm.
• Portrait of Jean-Louis van Dievoet (1777–1854), secretary to the Parquet de la Cour de Cassation (1777–1854), 61 x 70 cm, influenced by Jacques-Louis David.]
• The Poultryman (1827), painting by Ignace Brice, exhibited at the Brussels salon in 1827, now at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
• The Holy Family surrounded by angels, oils, 1818. (now at the Centre Public d'aide sociale, Brussels).

Bibliography

• (in French) Paul De Zuttere, "Les Brice, peintres à Bruxelles aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles", in L'Intermédiaire des Généalogistes, Bruxelles, n° 190, 1977, pp. 258–265.
• (in French) Paul De Zuttere, "Contribution à l'œuvre des peintres Antoine et Ignace Brice", in L'Intermédiaire des Généalogistes, Bruxelles, n° 345, 2003, p. 113–121.
• (in French) Messager des sciences historiques, Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand, Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique de Gand. Published by P.F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1879: page 469, "Ignace Brice (fils de maître)".

See also

• List of Belgian painters
• Art of Belgium