Polydore Beaufaux

Polydore Beaufaux studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Albert Neuhuys, Leo Van Aken and Gerard Portielje are recorded as having studied under Polydore Beaufaux. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Work by Polydore Beaufaux is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Cuypershuis and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

• Name — Polydore Beaufaux • Birth Name — Polydore Beaufaux • Born — 30 November 1829 • Birthplace — Court-Saint-Étienne, Belgium • Died — 7 May 1905 • Place of death — Wavre, Belgium • Occupation — Painter • Education — Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) • Illustration — Oriental Girl with a Dove (date unknown)

From 1844 to 1850, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp). In 1857, he won the Prix de Rome (Belgium) for painting. He used his prize money to make a study trip from 1859 to 1863, visiting France and Italy, where he did a portrait of Pope Pius IX. The following year, he became a Professor at the Academy, where he taught a course entitled "Painting from Life". Léon Abry, Gerard Portielje and Edouard de Jans are among his best-known students. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon. In 1889, he made a trip to England, then left Antwerp to settle in Wavre. A year later, he became paralyzed in his hands and could no longer paint.

• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Vol. 8, München-Leipzig (K.G. Saur Verlag), 1994. • Léon Maret. Le peintre Polydore Beaufaux 1829—1905 Prix de Rome. — S.l., 1967. — 45 pp.