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Gustave de Jonghe was born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1829. As a young man he studied with his father, painter Jean Baptiste de Jonghe, and later with Louis Gallait and François Joseph Navez, Belgium’s most important pupil of Jacques-Louis David, in Brussels.
Following the style of his teachers, Jonghe's early works tended toward historical and religious subjects, portraits, and later, genre scenes. In 1855 he moved to Paris where fellow Belgian, Alfred Stevens, was gaining no (showing 500 of 1628 characters). |
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