Joseph Paelinck. Joseph Paelinck, was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.
Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where he painted in 1804 A Judgment of Paris, which earned him his first Academy Art Award for Ghent. After he had worked there a short time as a teacher, he went to Rome and stayed there for five years.
He painted, among other things: Rome under Augustus for the Quirinal Palace and the Discovery of the Cross for St. Michael's Church in Ghent. He was later a professor at the Acad�mie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Brussels.
His many pupils included Charles Baugniet, Fran�ois Antoine Bodumont, Edouard de Bi�fve, Elisa De Gamond, F�lix De Vigne, Jean Joseph Geens, Jozef Geirnaert, Joseph Meganck, Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies, Alfred Stevens, Joseph Cohen de Vries and Abraham Johannes Zeeman.