Joseph Paelinck

Joseph Paelinck studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. Joseph Cohen de Vries and Charles Baugniet are recorded as having studied under Joseph Paelinck. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Rome and Ghent. Works named in the authority record are The Toilet of Psyche and Portrait of William I, King of the Netherlands. Work by Joseph Paelinck is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Rijksmuseum, National Portrait Gallery and Cleveland Museum of Art.

Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) 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 Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Brussels. His many pupils included Charles Baugniet, François Antoine Bodumont, Edouard de Bièfve, Élisa de Gamond, Félix De Vigne, Jean Joseph Geens, Jozef Geirnaert, Joseph Meganck, Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies, Alfred Stevens, Joseph Cohen de Vries and Abraham Johannes Zeeman.

Joseph Paelinck is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre portrait.