Adèle Kindt

Adèle Kindt (16 December 1804 – 8 May 1893)[2] was a Belgian painter; known primarily for portraits and genre scenes.

Marie-Adélaïde Kindt
Self-portrait (c.1820)
Born(1804-12-16)16 December 1804
Brussels, Belgium
Died8 May 1893(1893-05-08) (aged 88)[1]
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Known forPainting
MovementRomanticism
Part of Kindt's Épisode des journées de septembre 1830.

Biography

Born in Brussels into a family that produced many female artists, Marie-Adélaïde Kindt was trained in drawing by engraver Antoine Cardon. She studied painting under François-Joseph Navez and was encouraged by Jacques-Louis David.[3]

Although trained as a neoclassicist, Kindt produced work informed by Romanticism. Her early works included many historical scenes. Her Épisode des journées de septembre 1830, portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the Grand Place.[3]

After the 1840s, Kindt painted much less ambitious works, largely portraiture and genre scenes. Although she adapted her style to suit the changing tastes of the public, she never recaptured the success of her early career.[3] She died in Brussels. Her date of death is usually said to have been in 1884, but this has also been described as a "stubborn error" that should be corrected to 8 May 1893.[2] Her death was reported in the newspaper Le Patriote on 12 May 1893, in coverage of registrations of births, deaths and marriages in the city of Brussels.[1]

Her younger sisters Clara and Laurence were landscape painters, as was her sister-in-law Isabelle Kindt-Van Assche.[3]

References
  1. "État civil: Bruxelles – Déclarations des 7 et 8 mai". Le Patriote. 12 May 1893. p. 3.
  2. Paul De Zuttere, "Quelques remarques à propos de l'exposition '1770–1830: Autour du Néo-Classicisme en Belgique' et notes additionnelles au catalogue", Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle, 13 (1986), p. 132.
  3. Creusen, Alexia, "Kindt, Marie-Adélaïde, dite Adèle" in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds), Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles. Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2006. ISBN 2-87386-434-6

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