Adèle Kindt
{{Short description|Belgian painter}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Marie-Adélaïde Kindt
| image = Kindt, Selfportrait.jpg
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| caption = Self-portrait (c.1820)
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1804|12|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Brussels, France (now in Belgium)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1893|05|08|1804|12|16|df=yes}}{{Cite news|newspaper=Le Patriote|date=12 May 1893|title=État civil: Bruxelles – Déclarations des 7 et 8 mai|page=3|url=https://uurl.kbr.be/1746593}}
| death_place = Brussels, Belgium
| nationality = Belgian
| education =
| field = Painting
| training =
| movement = Romanticism
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Image:Adele Kindt Episode La révolution de 1830 (1830).jpg
Adèle Kindt (16 December 1804 – 8 May 1893)Paul De Zuttere, "Quelques remarques à propos de l'exposition '1770–1830: Autour du Néo-Classicisme en Belgique' et notes additionnelles au catalogue", Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle, 13 (1986), p. 132. was a Belgian painter; known primarily for portraits and genre scenes.
Biography
Born in Brussels into a family that produced many female artists, Marie-Adélaïde Kindt was trained in drawing by engraver Antoine Cardon. She studied painting under Sophie Rude and François-Joseph Navez{{Cite book |url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00098713 |title=Kindt, Marie Adélaïde |date=2011-10-31 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00098713}} and was encouraged by Jacques-Louis David.Creusen, Alexia, "Kindt, Marie-Adélaïde, dite Adèle" in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds), Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles. Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2006. {{ISBN|2-87386-434-6}}
Although trained as a neoclassicist, Kindt produced work informed by Romanticism. Her early works included many historical scenes. Her Épisode des journées de septembre 1830, portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the Grand-Place.
After the 1840s, Kindt painted much less ambitious works, largely portraiture and genre scenes. Although she adapted her style to suit the changing tastes of the public, she never recaptured the success of her early career. She died in Brussels. Her date of death is usually said to have been in 1884, but this has also been described as a "stubborn error" that should be corrected to 8 May 1893. Her death was reported in the newspaper Le Patriote on 12 May 1893, in coverage of registrations of births, deaths and marriages in the city of Brussels.
Her younger sisters Clara and Laurence were landscape painters, as was her sister-in-law Isabelle Kindt-Van Assche.
Gallery
File:Adèle Kindt - A portrait of a young girl and her dog.jpg|A portrait of a young girl and her dog, 1877
File:Adèle Kindt - De waarzegster - 3424 - Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.tiff|The Fortune Teller, 1828
File:Adèle Kindt - young girls in a white dress.jpg|A young girl in a white dress with a pink veil and flowers in her hair, holding a bird's nest with two eggs, 1853
File:Marie Adelaide Kindt - Faith, Hope and Charity - 1980.89 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Faith, Hope and Charity, 1840
File:Kindt, Paul en Virginie.jpg|Paul and Virginie, 1840
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