Martin van Dorne

He was nominated court painter by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, the governor of the Austrian Netherlands.

Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor of the Austrian Netherlands appointed van Dorne as an ordinary painter, by letters patent dated 5 August 1779.

[4] In October 1800 van Dorne was, together with Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, François Xavier Joseph Jacquin, Josse-Pieter Geedts, Frans Berges, Pieter Goyers and Antoon Clevenbergh, a co-founder of the Academy of Leuven.

[5] Van Dorne was an amateur poet who composed occasional poetry at family feasts and meetings of artists.

These works continue the late baroque tradition of Flemish still life painters such as Jan Baptist Bosschaert.

Trompe l'œil of swags of fruit and flowers pinned to a white wall together with moths and other insects
Flowers in a glass vase on a stone plinth