Background
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.
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.
Antoine began his training as a painter under his father at the Brussels Court and was made a master by the Corporation of Painters of Brussels on 5 February 1783. This training and the entourage of the governor-general"s court led him, at the end of the 18th century and the end of the Austrian regime in Brussels, to become a kind of official painter to the city"s aristocratic circles. He became a professor at the Brussels academy and there headed a course on classical art and the principals of drawing.
His students included Jean Baptiste Madou.
In 1810 he joined with the painters Antoine Cardon, Charles Verhulst and François-Joseph Navez to found a "Société des Amateurs d"Arts".