Nicaise de Keyser

Nicaise de Keyser ( born August 26, 1813 in Santvliet at Antwerp; † July 17, 1887 same place ) was a Belgian academic historical and portrait painter.

De Keyser was a student of Joseph Jacobs and Mathieu Ignace van Brée in Antwerp, before he went to Italy in 1839. On October 6, 1840 he married the genre painter Isabella Telghuys.

1855 de Keyser Director of the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp. Among his pupils were, among others, January Battaille, Florent Claes, Emile Claus Jan Swerts, Pierre Cuypers, Alexis van Hamme, Jozef Lies, Jean Baptiste Sevrin, J. van de Velde, Charles Verlat, Pierre Witt Verreydt and Kamp.

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