Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1 February 1814 – 31 July 1891) was a Belgian stained glass painter. Jean-Baptiste Capronnier was born in Brussels in 1814, he had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his clever restorations of old examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum. He carried out windows for various churches in Brussels (including the Église Royale Sainte-Marie), Bruges, Amsterdam, the UK including Howden Minster and elsewhere, and his work was commissioned also for France, Italy and England.
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
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- Name
- Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
- Born
- 1 February 1814
- Birthplace
- Brussels, First French Empire
- Died
- 31 July 1891
- Place of death
- Schaerbeek, Belgium
- Occupation
- Painter
- Full name
- Jean Baptiste François Capronnier.
- Nationality
- France and Belgium.
- Teachers
- François-Joseph Navez.
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Leopold.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1 February 1814 – 31 July 1891) was a Belgian stained glass painter. Jean-Baptiste Capronnier was born in Brussels in 1814, he had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his clever restorations of old examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum. He carried out windows for various churches in Brussels (including the Église Royale Sainte-Marie), Bruges, Amsterdam, the UK including Howden Minster and elsewhere, and his work was commissioned also for France, Italy and England.
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At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he won the only medal given for glasspainting. He died in Schaerbeek in 1891. Capronnier was also an entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera and he became a Member of the Royal Belgian Entomological Society.
Allegorie op het lijden van Jezus door Jean Baptiste Capronnier.
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• Name — Jean-Baptiste Capronnier • Birth Name — Jean-Baptiste Capronnier • Born — 1 February 1814 • Birthplace — Brussels, First French Empire • Died — 31 July 1891 • Place of death — Schaerbeek, Belgium • Occupation — Painter • Illustration — Three scenes of the legend of the Miraculous Sacrament. Stained glass windows in the Cathédrale of Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, Brussels, by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (c. 1870)
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Entomological titles (selection)
• Capronnier, J.B. (1889): Liste des Lépidoptères capturés au Congo. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889:118–127. • Capronnier, J.B. (1889): Liste d’une collection de lépidoptères recueillis au Gabon avec la description de quatres espèces nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889:141–148.
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1814
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier born at Paris.
1891
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier died at Schaerbeek.
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- 1.J. Helbig. Biographie nationale. Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 1961.
- 2.Jean-Baptiste Capronnier et Bruxelles. ReflexCity.
- 3.Nécrologie. L'Indépendance Belge. 31 août 1891.
- 4.Overlijdensbericht in Leopoldina 27: 157. Gearchiveerd op 6 december 2021.
- 5.L'ordre de Léopold. Lucien Hochsteyn. 1887.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Ulrich Thieme. Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Capronnier, Jean-Baptiste Capronnier. E. A. Seemann. 1911. 608. 558-559.
- Catalogue de la collection de cartons de vitraux peints de la succession de J.B. Capronnier à Bruxelles, 1892.
- Catalogue de la vente J.B. Capronnier, Livres anciens et modernes, vitraux peints, etc. 1892.
- Ludger Delbruyère, Jean-Baptiste Capronnier et les vitraux armoriés de l'église royale Sainte-Marie à Schaarbeek.
- Ivo Bakelants, De glasschilderkunst in België in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw, deel C, Furnes, 1992.
- Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Biographie nationale de Belgique, T. XXXI,
- Piet Pauwels, Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, T. XXVI, Brussel 2002, 241-243.
- Rie Vermeire & Luc Vints, "Mooi dat het hier gebleven is", L'archive Capronnier dans KADOC, dans Koorts, erfgoedmagazine van KADOC, 2022.
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