Francis Van Bossuit

Francis Van Bossuit is a sculptor of art Bruxellois. It was born in 1635 with Brussels and died in 1692 with Amsterdam.

Biography

After its training with Brussels, it reaches the control with Antwerp.

Towards 1655 - 1660, it leaves for Italy, where it works with Balthazar Permozer with the Academy of Florence and attends the group of Dutch Bentvogels. It settles during many years with Rome where it is carried out many copies of ancient statues.

Of return to the Netherlands in company of the painter Bonaventure van Overbeke, it is established with Amsterdam where it will remain there until his death in 1692.

Analyzes

Nourished by its long stay in Italy, it was made conspicuous by infinite “tenderness” that it gave on its subjects drawn from the Mythologie or inspired by the religion.

Malthus Pool, in its biography, known as of him It was looked like a wonder, by its manner free, bold and easy to work the yvoire that it manioit as it had been wax, it I donnoit especially a certain tenderness which him étoit particular and to which few sculptors can reach, it thus should not be astonished if this great genius were the admiration of its century, even of sound alive and regretted after its death by all the connoisseurs and amateurs of beautiful things…

Works

nonexhaustive List

Mars , statuette in Ivory
Loth and his/her daughters , ivory low-relief (H.: 14,1 cm, L.: 22,6 cm, P.: 2,8 cm).
Loth and his/her daughters , ivory low-relief (H. 11 cm, L. 21 cm), coll Rotschild.
Hagar, his/her Ismaël son and the Angel , ivory low-relief, (H. 13,5 cm, L. 22,5 cm), coll particular.

Books

Matthus Pool published in 1727 a biography and a collection of the engraved work of Francis Van Bossuit, which refers.
Christian Theuerkauff published in 1975 a biography.

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