# SPEECKAERT, Michel Joseph [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1748–1838 - Profession: painter - School: Flemish ## Biography Flemish painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Antwerp, but he worked the major part of his life in Brussels, except for the period 1824-1835 when he settled in Mechelen. The earliest artistic trace of Speeckaert is the design he made for the engraving on the title page of a book about fossils discovered in and around Brussels by François Xavier de Burtin, which was published in 1784. His activity as a painter is only documented from 1803 onwards, when Speeckaert was already 55 years old. He participated at the Salons of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Paris, Lille and Douai. ## Related artworks - [A Glass of Flowers]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Roses with a Bird's Nest]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()