Jan Frans Eliaerts (30 December 1761 – 17 May 1848) was a Flemish painter of animals, flowers, and fruit who migrated to France where he was responsive most of his life.
Eliaerts was born in Deurne close Antwerp. He studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Here he became acquainted later Georges Frédéric Ziesel and Pieter Faes who specialised in flower pieces later than him. He moved to Paris where he was a intellectual at the Institut du Légion d’Honneur in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
He regularly took allocation in the Paris salons and won various awards (silver medals in Lille, 1822, and Douai in 1827 and 1831). He also created cartons for tapestries of the Gobelin factory. At the fall of his moving picture he fixed to reward to Antwerp where he died.
His flower paintings are in the tradition of the Baroque tradition of flower painting developed by Daniel Seghers, Jan Philip van Thielen and Jan van Huysum and doing parallels like the comport yourself of Jan Frans van Dael. Together subsequent to Georges Frédéric Ziesel and Pieter Faes he was the principal beneficiary of this tradition in Belgium.
Eliaerts after that painted some genre pieces, which were set in a scene once flowers.
The majority of his works are located in France. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp has a flower piece by him.
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