The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odevaere, Josephus Dionysius

ODEVAERE, Josephus Dionysius, a Flemish painter, born in Bruges, Oct. 2, 1778, died in Brussels in February, 1830. He studied painting in Bruges and in Paris, and in 1804 obtained the great prize of the French academy of painting for a picture of the death of Phocion. A pension from the same institution enabled him to study in Rome from 1805 to 1812, and in 1814 he settled in Brussels. Among his paintings are the “Peace of Utrecht” (1814) and the “Battle of Waterloo” (1817).