Frans van Dorne

In Paris he became one of a selected number of pupils of Jacques-Louis David, the famous French Neoclassical painter.

[3] In 1806, he received from the magistrates of his native city Leuven a commission to paint a full-length portrait of Emperor Napoleon.

Van Dorne submitted a mythological picture representing Venus to the Paris Salon of 1808.

He received a commission from a monastic institution in England to paint four religious compositions representing various episodes of the life of the Virgin.

He also painted a copy of a masterpiece of the Flemish Baroque master Gaspar de Crayer for the St. Peter's Church in Leuven.