Gilles-Lambert Godecharle
Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (Brussels, 1750 — Brussels, 1835) was a Belgian sculptor, a pupil of Laurent Delvaux, "the only sculptor of international repute in Delvaux's retinue",[1] who became one of two outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in the Austrian Netherlands.[2]
In response to his early promise, Maria Theresa awarded him a stipend that enabled him to travel for his studies, first to Paris, then to Rome. He received official commissions under Napoleon and under William I of the Netherlands. His pediment sculptures for the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of the Austrian Netherlands, now the Palais de la Nation, Brussels, (1781-82) are his most prominent public commission, represented today by a careful copy following his models conserved at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels[3] but by far the greatest part of his output was in portrait busts.
Notes
- ^ The Sculpture Journal, (Liverpool University Press) 5/6, 2001:108.
- ^ The other, according to Chandler Rathfon Post, A history of European and American sculpture, 1921 volume 2, p. 106, was Charles François Van Poucke.
- ^ L'art au Sénat: découverte d'un patrimoine p. 26.