François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and genre scenes.

[1] As the son of an alderman, in a privileged family, he was able to devote himself entirely to art from an early age.

[2] From 1803 to 1808, he was a pupil at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he studied with Pierre Joseph Célestin François.

[4] Navez was elected a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1826, he became a supernumerary associate in 1841 and resigned in 1851.

He died in 1869, in the company of Portaels and his wife's relatives, and was interred at Laeken Cemetery.