Francois Joseph Navez (1787 - 1869). François-Joseph Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter. François-Joseph Navez 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. Jean Carolus, the Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors, was a protege of François-Joseph Navez.