- François Dieussart
François Dieussart (also Frans) (
Armentières , c. 1600 -London , 1661) was a popular seventeenth century Flemish-Walloon sculptor.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 inWindsor Castle , possibly byThomas Adye orFrancis Bird (c. 1737-44) is speculatively thought to be based on a now lost bust by Dieussart [Gudrun Raatschen, "Plaster Casts of Bernini's Bust of Charles I," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 138, No. 1125. (Dec., 1996), pp. 813-816; 813] .Notes
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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