FLEMAL or FLEMAEL, BERTHOLET a Flemish painter, born at Liege on May 23, 1614. He studied under Henri Trippez and Gerard Douffet. He went to Italy in 1638, returning via Paris, where he decorated the churches of the Grands Augustines and the Carmes Dechausses. He returned to Liege in 1663. In 1670 he was elected member of the Paris Acad emy, and he painted the ceiling of the audience chamber in the Tuileries (destroyed in 1871) . He is one of the most important masters of the later Flemish school, a pioneer of the classicist movement in his country. His style is modelled on that of Poussin. Most of his numerous religious pictures in the churches of Liege were destroyed and lost during the French Revolution. However, there are several works still extant in the cathedral and in the churches of St. Jean, St. Barthelemy and Ste. Croix. Others are in the museums of Liege, Bamberg, Brussels, Dresden, Fontaine bleau, Cassel, Stockholm, Niort, and in the Louvre. Flemal was also a distinguished portrait painter. His self portrait was engraved by Jean Duvivier.