Joseph De Cauwer or sometimes Cauwer-Ronsse (1779–1854) was a Belgian portraitist and history painter.
[1] De Cauwer was born in Beveren (East Flanders) on 2 February 1779 and began his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, but around 1800 moved to Ghent, where he completed his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts there.
His pupils included Jean Joseph Geens and Willem de Visser (1801-1875).
[3] From 1802 onwards he regularly exhibited at the salon of the Ghent Society of Fine Arts, making his name in 1810 with a Martyrdom of St Lawrence, and receiving gold medals in 1812 and 1817.
[2] In 1817 he exhibited L'Humanité Belge, depicting Belgian peasants tending to the wounded of both sides after the Battle of Waterloo.