Antoine Brice was a Belgian painter.

Life

Antoine Brice was the son of the painter Pierre-François Brice

Pierre-François Brice

Pierre-François Brice was a French artist who spent most of his career in what is now Belgium.-Life:...

, working in the entourage of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was a Lorraine-born Austrian soldier.-Background:Charles was the son of Leopold Joseph, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans...

, and his own son Ignace

Ignace Brice

Ignace Brice was a Belgian painter.-Family, marriage and issue:His father Antoine and his paternal grandfather Pierre-François were both also painters...

 also became a painter. Antoine began his training as a painter under his father at the Brussels Court and was made a master by the Corporation of Painters of Brussels on 5 February 1783. In the meantime he had also followed a more classical training at the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Brussels

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts

The Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels is an art school, founded in 1711.The faculty and alumni of ARBA include some of the most famous names in Belgian painting, sculpture, and architecture: James Ensor, Rene Magritte, and Paul Delvaux...

, where he won first prize in 1776. This training and the entourage of the governor-general's court led him, at the end of the 18th century and the end of the Austrian regime in Brussels, to become a kind of official painter to the city's aristocratic circles.

He became a professor at the Brussels academy and there headed a course on classical art and the principals of drawing. His students included Jean Baptiste Madou

Jean Baptiste Madou

Jean Baptiste Madou , was a Belgian painter and lithographer.Madou was born in Brussels. He studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Francois. While draftsman to the topographical military division at Kortrijk, he received a commission for lithographic work from a Brussels...

. In 1810 he joined with the painters Antoine Cardon

Antoine Cardon

Antoine-Alexandre-Joseph Cardon , also known as Cardon the elder to distinguish him from his son, was a Belgian painter, portraitist and engraver, born an Austrian due to Brussels then being in the Austrian Netherlands...

, Charles Verhulst and François-Joseph Navez

François-Joseph Navez

François-Joseph Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter.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...

to found a "Société des Amateurs d'Arts".

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