Belgian painter. In 1855, he left Belgium for Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon of French Artists during the next thirty years. He started his career painting historical and sacred subject matter, but later specialized in portraits, historical genre and family scenes. He presented at the Salon a lot of paintings, featuring bourgeois families in luxury interiors. Throughout his career, he used this kind of grand interior to give him the opportunity to exercise his observational and painterly skills with great flair. As a very appreciated artist, he won two gold medals, one in Amsterdam in 1862 and the second one in Paris at the 1863 Salon of French Artists. In 1895, De Jonghe was considered as the direct successor of Alfred Stevens in Paris. //