The Belgian Landscape Architect of Light To understand the trajectory of Belgian landscape painting in the nineteenth century, one must look directly at Jacques Rosseels. He was not merely a painter but a theorist and an administrator who shaped the institutional framework of Belgian art. Born in Antwerp in 1828, his early training at the Académie royale des beaux-arts d'Anvers under Edward Dujardin and Jacob Jacobs provided the techn…