Joseph-François Ducq is a Belgian painter. Ducq was born in Ledegem in 1762. He had a natural talent of drawing. Ducq attended Academy of Bruges together with Paul De Cock (1724-1801). He obtained first price there in 1786. After finishing his studies in Bruge he left to Paris with Joseph-Benoît Suvée. In 1792 Ducq returned to Bruges during the revolution. He became a member of the local Jacobin Club and played a political role during the last days of the first French occupation. He returned to Paris and received a second Prize of Rome in 1800. He stayed in Rome from 1807 to 1813 and became there the official painter at the court of Eugène de Beauharnais, the viceroy of Italy. After another stay in Paris (1813-15) he settled in Bruges where he was named director of the Academy of Painting. He was also the court painter at the court of William I. He died in Bruges in 1829. Only a few of Ducq's paintings have survived and a few hundread of his studies.