Philippe de Buyster (1595 – 1688), was a Flemish-French sculptor.
Biography
He was born in
Antwerp
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and became a pupil of Gillis van Papenhoven.
[Philippe de Buyster]
in the RKD
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He moved to
Paris
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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
Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack (24 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where h ...
later became a sculptor while another son Pieter Andreas Rysbrack became a painter.[
He is known for mythological subjects.][
He died in Paris.
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References
1595 births
1688 deaths
Emigrants from the Spanish Netherlands
Immigrants to France
Flemish sculptors (before 1830)
17th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Artists from Antwerp
Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to France
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