page_title: Engelbert van Siclers
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Engelbert van Siclers / Life
context_page_description: Engelbert van Siclers or Engelbert Lieven van Siclers was a Flemish painter who is known for his cityscapes of Gent.
context_section_description: Engelbert van Siclers was born in Gent as the son of Jacques van Siclers, lawyer on the Council of Flanders and Anne Odevaere, whose father, Martin Odevaere, had also been a lawyer on the same council. The Siclers were an old aristocratic family, which was of Lombard-Jewish ancestry and had played a prominent role in Ghent in the 14th to 16th century.
  Engelbert studied law and practised painting only as an amateur as he was independently wealthy.  He did not join the local Guild of St Luke.  It is in the capacity of "retiree" that he joined in 1780 the Gent assembly of notables known as the Collace. He was also a deacon of the fishmongers' guild.
  He was a faithful contributor to the Gent Academy for drawing, painting and architecture, where in 1782 and again in 1790 he was the patron of a pupil enrolled in drawing classes.  He married Anne Bernardine Mechelynck.
caption: The 9 May market in Sint-Amandsberg
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