Karel Javůrek was a Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 painter, known for his history painting

History painting

History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...

s. He received his initial training with Christian Ruben

Christian Ruben

Christian Ruben was a German painter.Born in Trier, Ruben studied in Düsseldorf under Peter von Cornelius from 1823, and in 1826 settled in Munich, where he worked on the designs for the new stained glass windows for the Regensburg Cathedral and for a church in Auer...

 after spending time in František Tkadlík

František Tkadlík

František Tkadlík was a Czech painter. Many of his works were painted in the Classicist and Empiricist styles. He served as court painter to the Czernin family from 1817 until 1825, and acted as guard of their art gallery in Vienna...

's studio

Studio

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; he then followed Jaroslav Čermák

Jaroslav Čermák (painter)

Jaroslav Čermák was a Czech painter known primarily for his history paintings. Many of his paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague.- Biography :...

 to Antwerp, where he studied with Gustave Wappers. Further study in Paris

Paris

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 followed, with Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.-Life:He was born at Senlis, Oise, France...

. Consequently, many of Javůrek's paintings, though based on Czech history, bore some evidence of French and Belgian influence.

Reference

• Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed. 19th-Century Art in Bohemia: (1790–1910) - Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts. Prague; National Gallery in Prague, 2009.