| Philippe de Buyster | |
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| Born | 1595  |
| Died | 1688 (aged 92–93) |
Philippe de Buyster (1595 – 1688), was a Flemish-French sculptor.
Biography
He was born in Antwerp and became a pupil of Gillis van Papenhoven. He moved to Paris in about 1622, where in 1632 he became 'Sculpteur ordinaire du Roi' and lived to a great age. He worked on numerous funeral monuments and decorations for the Royal court, often collaborating with Jacques Sarazin. His widow remarried the painter Pieter Rijsbraeck. Their son John Michael Rysbrack later became a sculptor while another son Pieter Andreas Rysbrack became a painter.
He is known for mythological subjects.
He died in Paris.
References
- ^ Philippe de Buyster in the RKD
- Hedin, Thomas F. (1983). The sculpture of Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0826203953.
Philippe de Buyster.
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