François Dusart

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Bust of Elisabeth Stuart , Queen of Bohemia . Marble, around 1641. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum , London.
Bust of Maria Henrietta Stuart on Sanssouci .
Dusart's bust of Friedrich III. from Denmark .

François Dusart , also Frans Dieussart (* around 1600 in Armentières , † 1661 in London ) was a Flemish - Walloon sculptor who worked for royal courts in England , the United Netherlands and Northern Europe and made portrait busts in the Italian Baroque style.

life and work

By the time he came to Rome in his early twenties, Dusart was probably already an active sculptor. In 1622 he enrolled in the pilgrims' hospice in the Church of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi , presiding over it around 1630. In 1636 he was invited to England by the Earl of Arundel and made a name for himself there by constructing a magnificent monstrance over 12 meters high for Queen Henrietta Maria's chapel in Somerset House .

His bust of Charles I of England , probably commissioned by the Earl of Arundel, is in Arundel Castle . Another portrait bust of Charles I at Windsor Castle (possibly created around 1737–44 by Thomas Adye or Francis Bird) is believed to be a copy of a lost bust from Dusart's workshop.

He is mentioned in a poem by Cornelis de Bie in his book Het Gulden Cabinet as a court sculptor for the Stuarts in England. A brief biographical sketch for Dieussart was published in the early art history reference work Die Teutsche Academie by Joachim von Sandrart . According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History , he learned his craft in Rome from François Duquesnoy .

literature

Web links

Commons : François Dieussart  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Charles Avery: François Dieussart (c. 1600-1661), Portrait Sculptor to the Courts of Northern Europe . In: Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook . tape 4 . Phaidon , London 1974, p. 63-99 (English).
  2. ^ Edward Chaney: Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel by Francois Dieussart . In: Apollo . CXLIV, No. 413, 1996, pp. 49-50.
  3. ↑ Michael Vickers: Rupert of the Rhine: a new portrait by Dieussart and Bernini's Charles I . In: Apollo . No. 107, 1978, pp. 161-169.
  4. ↑ Gudrun Raatschen: Plaster casts of Bernini's Bust of Charles I . In: The Burlington Magazine . 138, No. 1125, 1996, pp. 813-816.
  5. ↑ Cornelis de Bie: Franciscvs du Sart ghenoempt Waloni . In: Het Gulden Cabinet of Edel Vry Schilderconst . Jan Meyssen, Antwerp 1662, p. 556 (Dutch, digitized (full text) in the Google book search).
  6. ^ Joachim von Sandrart: Franciscus du Sart . In: L'Academia Todesca. della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Or Teutsche Academie der Edel Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste . Nuremberg 1675, p. 350 ( sandrart.net ).
  7. ^ François Dieussart. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Dusart, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dieussart, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Armentières
DATE OF DEATH 1661
Place of death London