Bree, Mattheus Ignatius van; is someone knows his works?

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Mathieu Ignace Van Brée

(b Antwerp, 22 Feb 1773; d Antwerp, 15 Dec 1839). Painter, draughtsman, sculptor and teacher. From 1783 to 1794 he studied at the local academy. His first known work, Venus and Cupid (1794; untraced), is in the French Neo-classical style. At this time Van Brée must also have painted landscapes and portraits. After the closing of the academy in September 1794, following the French invasion, he left for Paris, where he took lessons from François André Vincent. In 1797 he took part in the Prix de Rome competition and won a second prize with Death of Cato (untraced; preparatory drawing, priv. col., see 1985 exh. cat., p. 149). Shortly afterwards he returned to Antwerp, where he became a teacher at the reopened Akademie in 1804. From 1801 onwards he executed, on commission from the city council, an allegory on the glory of Napoleon (untraced), which in turn won him an important commission from Josephine de Beauharnais: the Arrival of the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte at Antwerp, 18 June 1803 (1807; Versailles, Château). This large narrative piece was followed by similar commissions, such as the Launching of the ‘Friedland’ on 2 May 1810 at Antwerp (1810; Versailles, Château) and the Presentation of the Keys of Amsterdam to Napoleon (1812; Amsterdam, Hist. Mus.). During the period of French rule, he also painted portraits, and more traditional subjects from Classical history and mythology, in an austere Neo-classical style indebted to both David and Vincent (e.g. the Departure of Regulus for Carthage, 1804–7, and Drawing Lots for the Sacrificial Victims of the Minotaur, c. 1807–11; both untraced; sketches in Brussels, Mus. Royaux A. & Hist.).

Part of the Van Brée family

Some images may be found here-
http://www.allposters.com/-st/Mathieu-Ignace-van-Bree-Posters_c22347_s64308_.htm
http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/product.php?xProd=40845&xSec=1040
http://www.artnet.de/artist/705855/mathieu-ignace-van-bree.html