F.J. Navez ( 1787 – 1869), Landscape with cottages.

Lovely antique oil painting on canvas, +- 1850.
The painting shows a beautiful landscape with a woman, cottages and trees.
The canvas is showing light signs of wear because of its old age.
The painting is signed lower rightside, F. Navez, { Francois - Joseph Navez ( 16 November 1787 - 12 October 1869, is a famous Belgian painter } See for more info. below.

Size of the canvas is, 29 x 45 cm.
Size of the outside of the frame is, 14.5 x 20.7 inches. 37 x 53 cm.

François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 – 12 October 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.
Navez was born in Charleroi. He was 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. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.
The orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law).
Jean Carolus, the Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors, was a protege of François-Joseph Navez.
Navez was elected a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1826, he became a supernumerary associate in 1841 and resigned in 1851. He died in 1869 in Brussels.