Joseph Jaquet

Joseph Jaquet, born in Antwerp in Belgium, was the son of a baker. He studied with Guillaume Geefs at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and was the friend of Peter Ludwig Kühnen (1812–1877), a painter originating from Aachen, specialised in painting romantic landscapes. He called from Antwerp to Brussels his brother Jacques (1830 - 1898) who assisted him throughout his lifetime. Jacques actively took part in sculpture by his own productions for the Brussels art salons of 1843, 1854, 1860, 1866, 1872 and 1873. For the 1842 Brussels Art Salon, Joseph Jaquet exhibited a marble bust, three plaster busts, a Moses Saved from the Waters and a Meditating Saint Paul which brought him notoriety. His contribution for the 1845 Salon was more important and especially a model for a bronze statue of Froissart for Chimay but he acquired a definitive notoriety in 1854 with The Golden Age. At that time, he lived in Goffard street then he moved for Charles Quint street. In 1864, he secured his first commission in Amsterdam: The Victory for the Paleis voor Volksvlijt, then a second commission for the decoration of the national monument in The Hague Willemspark. The equestrian statue of Baldwin I of Constantinople was created in 1868 in Mons, then the pediment and lions on the Bourse Palace in Brussels in 1872. In 1879, Joseph Jaquet designed a statue of Louise of Orléans, first Queen of the Belgians: this statue was on the Place d'Armes in Philippeville then was moved to the old École moyenne, Namur street. He was a professor at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and a master of Charles Samuel. He died in 1898 in Schaerbeek in the Brussels-Capital Region.

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as a citizen of Belgium. It is also recorded that joseph Jaquet is recorded with the gender male. Born on 30 January 1822. It is also recorded that joseph Jaquet died on 9 June 1898.