Charles Le Clercq

His expenses were secured at the beginning of 1777, when Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine provided him with an annual scholarship of 300 Florins.

He left for Rome later that year, and was placed under the supervision of Anton von Maron, who was responsible for overseeing all of the painters with Austrian citizenship studying there.

[3] In 1787 he returned to Brussels to marry Isabelle Simons; younger sister of the painter known as Marie de Latour.

This resulted in a further series of portraits, featuring Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, his wife Pauline, who held numerous titles, and their children.

[1] For many years, most of his works were misattributed to other artists, such as Joseph Boze, Domenico Duprà, Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, and Jean-Frédéric Schall.