![Philippe-Jacques van Bree - The First Pose, the Artist’s Studio in Rome [1833]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3875/15164690009_8a1fca767a_o.jpg)
Philippe-Jacques van Bree was born in Antwerp in 1786. He studied at Antwerp, in Paris (where he became a scholar of Girodet), and at Rome; and also visited Germany and England. He was made conservator of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, where he died in 1871.
[Private Collection - Oil on canvas]