Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 – 6 December 1874) was a Belgian painter.

As a teacher at the Antwerp Academy he trained a great number of pupils including Ford Madox Brown, Jozef Van Lerius, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William Duffield, Emil Hünten, the Czech history painter Karel Javůrek, Jaroslav Čermák, Ludwig von Hagn, Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans, Eugene van Maldeghem, Ferdinand Pauwels and Jacob Jacobs.

Some of them depict traditional devotional subjects ("Christ Entombed"), while others illustrate the Romantic view of history: "Charles I taking leave of his Children", "Charles IX", "Camoens", "Peter the Great at Saardam", and "Boccaccio at the Court of Joanna of Naples".

[3] He finished the work in 1844, the same year that he received the title of baron from Belgian king Leopold I.

[citation needed] After retiring as director of the Antwerp Academy, he settled in 1853 in Paris, where he died in 1873.