A painting by Adèle Kindt acquired by The Art Gallery of South Australia

10/10/24 - Acquisition - Adélaïde, The Art Gallery of South Australia - She was only fourteen when she exhibited for the first time at the Brussels Salon. It was in 1818, and the work exhibited was a drawn portrait. Adèle Kindt was one of the great figures of Belgian painting in the early 19th century. She learned drawing from Antoine Cardon, then moved into the circle of Jacques-Louis David, who was exiled to Brussels from 1816. It is not certain that she worked in the master’s studio, but she trained with two of his pupils: Sophie Frémiet - wife of François Rude (see article)- and then François-Joseph Navez, whose influence led her style to evolve from neoclassicism towards a certain romanticism. For Navez, often considered the Belgian neoclassical painter par excellence, could…