Biography

Flemish sculptor and painter. He was a pupil of Maximilaan Labbé (active c. 1629) and Lucas Faydherbe and became a master sculptor of the Mechelen Guild of St Luke in 1662. He worked almost entirely in wood and, unusually, coloured his own figures, which perhaps accounts for their exceptional synthesis and unity. He is best known for his confessionals, including those in churches St Catherine, St John, and Sts Peter and Paul in Mechelen. He made also charming polychrome wooden figures of saints in the Kempen district near Antwerp.