Background
Jean Baptiste Morel was born in Antwerp and studied c. 1674 under the Antwerp still life painter Nicolaes van Verendael who specialized in flower pieces and garlands.
Jean Baptiste Morel was born in Antwerp and studied c. 1674 under the Antwerp still life painter Nicolaes van Verendael who specialized in flower pieces and garlands.
He was successful as a painter in Antwerp but moved to Brussels after 1695 to respond to the significant demand for his work there. He obtained commissions from the governor of the Southern Netherlands whose palaces in Brussels he decorated. He returned to Antwerp in 1710 as a wealthy manitoba
He had problems with the local Guild of Saint Luke as he refused to join lieutenant
The Guild went so far as to seize works that he had exhibited. He then moved back to Brussels in 1729 and rejoined the Guild there.
He died in Brussels probably in 1732.
He became a member of the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke in 1699.