François Dieussart

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François Dieussart (also Frans) (Armentières, c. 1600 - London, 1661) was a popular seventeenth century Flemish-Walloon sculptor.

Dieussart's bust of Frederick III of Denmark.
Dieussart's bust of Frederick III of Denmark.

He was likely an active sculptor by the time he arrived in Rome in his early twenties. He appears in an entry from 1622 at the charitable organisation run at the San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi and had become its proviseur by 1630.

A bust of Charles I of England in Windsor Castle, possibly by Thomas Adye or Francis Bird (c. 1737-44) is speculatively thought to be based on a now lost bust by Dieussart[1].

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Gudrun Raatschen, Plaster Casts of Bernini's Bust of Charles I, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 138, No. 1125. (Dec., 1996), pp. 813-816; 813

[edit] References

Frits Scholten, François Dieussart, Constantijn Huygens, and the Classical Ideal in Funerary Sculpture, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 25, No. 4. (1997), pp. 303-328.

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