Ignace Brice was a Belgian painter.

Family, marriage and issue

His father Antoine

Antoine Brice

Antoine Brice was a Belgian painter.- Life :Antoine Brice was the son of the painter Pierre-François Brice, working in the entourage of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, and his own son Ignace also became a painter...

 and his paternal grandfather Pierre-François

Pierre-François Brice

Pierre-François Brice was a French artist who spent most of his career in what is now Belgium.-Life:...

 were both also painters. Pierre-François had been born in the French village of Saint-Venant

Saint-Venant

Saint-Venant is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Saint-Venant is situated some northwest of Béthune and west of Lille, at the junction of the D186 and D916 roads and by the banks of the Lys River.-Population:-Places of interest:* The...

, but had left it to settle in Brussels and become a painter at the court of Prince Charles-Alexandre of Lorraine.

In Brussels on 25 August 1825, Ignace married Hortense van Dievoet (1804-1854), great-great-niece of the Brussels sculptor Peter van Dievoet

Peter Van Dievoet

Peter van Dievoet was a Belgian sculptor and designer of ornamental architectural features. He was born in Brussels, baptised 29 June 1661 in the church of Sainte-Gudule, died 2 March 1729 in Brussels....

 and of Philippe van Dievoet

Philippe Van Dievoet

Philippe Van Dievoet, , was a celebrated goldsmith and jeweller. He was goldsmith to King Louis XIV, conselor of the King and Consul of Paris....

, known as Vandive, goldsmith to Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV of France

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.

Life

Ignace Brice at first studied under his father and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts

The Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels is an art school, founded in 1711.The faculty and alumni of ARBA include some of the most famous names in Belgian painting, sculpture, and architecture: James Ensor, Rene Magritte, and Paul Delvaux...

, where he was strongly influenced by Jacques Louis David, then in exile in Brussels - Ignace became known as "le David bruxellois". He followed his father as a professor at the Academy, and exhibited in Brussels in 1815, 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833. He also exhibited in Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

, Antwerp and Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, and was one of the founders of the Société des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

He was a genre painter and portraitist, and had a great talent for drawing. His style was sober and classical and, besides David's influence, he reminds the viewer of the Port-Royal

Port-Royal

Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions.-History:...

 painters of the 17th century.

Works

• Lithographic portrait of Thérèse Langhendries, superior of the hôpital Saint-Jean de Bruxelles
• The young lady with her daughter in a garden, national Salon of 1842
• Portrait of Louis-Xavier Gomand (1803-1875)
• Portrait of Henri Joseph Meeûs, master-brewer, husband of Marie Madeleine van der Borcht.
• The Magician, oil on canvas, 120 x 108 cm.
• Portrait of Adrien Joseph Eugène Oorlof.
• Portrait of Hortense Poelaert (1815-1900), wife of Eugène van Dievoet (1804-1858), 1840, oil on canvas, 71 x 85 cm.
• Portrait of Jean-Louis van Dievoet (1777-1854), secretary to the Parquet de la Cour de Cassation (1777-1854), 61 x 70 cm, influenced by Jacques Louis David.]
• The cook and the poultry merchant (1827), painting by Ignace Brice, exhibited at the Brussels salon in 1827, now at the Rijksmuseum
  Rijksmuseum
  The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or simply Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art...
  
  in Amsterdam
• The Holy Family surrounded by angels, oils, 1818. (now at the Centre Public d'aide sociale, Brussels).