Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1 February 1814 – 31 July 1891) was a Belgian stained glass painter. Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1814, he had much to reach with the enlightened revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his psychoanalysis of the old-fashioned methods of workmanship, and his smart restorations of out of date examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum. He carried out windows for various churches in Brussels (including the Église Royale Sainte-Marie), Bruges, Amsterdam and elsewhere), and his play-act was commissioned as a consequence for France, Italy and England. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he won the isolated medal fixed idea for glasspainting. He died in Schaerbeek in 1891.
He was after that an entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera and he became a Member of the Royal Belgian Entomological Society.
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