SPEECKAERT, Michel Joseph
(b. 1748 Leuven, d. 1838 Bruxelles)
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.
