Fanny Geefs

Training under François-Joseph Navez is recorded. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brussels and Paris. Work by Fanny Geefs is recorded in the collections of Groeningemuseum, Rijksmuseum and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

• Name — Fanny Geefs • Birth Name — Isabelle Marie Françoise Corr • Died — 1883 • Field — Painting Fanny Geefs (1807–1883) was a Belgian painter of Irish descent.

Born Isabelle Marie Françoise Corr in either Dublin or Brussels, she studied art as a child. In the 1830s, she studied with François-Joseph Navez. As well as portraiture, she painted religious and historical scenes such as Our Lady Appearing to the Oppressed, which hangs in the Church of the Holy Family in Schaerbeek. She married successful sculptor Guillaume Geefs in 1836. • Illustration — The Life of a Woman: Pity – Love – Sorrow by Geefs She worked on commissions for the Belgian royal family, including several portraits of Queen Louise-Marie. Her triptych, La Vie d'Une Femme: La Piété, l'Amour et la Douleur (The Life of a Woman: Pity – Love – Sorrow), was an influence on Charlotte Brontë in her autobiographical novel Villette, set in Brussels. On her death in 1883, the Royal Library of Belgium purchased a large collection of her works. She was the sister of Irish engraver Erin Corr.

The authorities additionally record the headings Isabelle Marie Francoise Corr, Isabelle Marie Francoise Geefs and Isabelle Marie Francoise nee Corr Geefs. She married Guillaume Geefs. Other recorded relations include Joseph Geefs, Jean Geefs and Charles Geefs.

Fanny Geefs is recorded as painter.