Michel Joseph Speeckaert

1748 – 1838

Flemish painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Antwerp, but he worked the major part of his life in Brussels, except for the period 1824-1835 when he settled in Mechelen. The earliest artistic trace of Speeckaert is the design he made for the engraving on the title page of a book about fossils discovered in and around Brussels by François Xavier de Burtin, which was published in 1784. His activity as a painter is only documented from 1803 onwards, when Speeckaert was already 55 years old. He participated at the Salons of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Paris, Lille and Douai.

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