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Philippe Joseph Parmentier (15 November 1787 – 5 May 1867) was a Belgian sculptor.
Philippe Joseph Parmentier (15 November 1787 – 5 May 1867) was a Belgian sculptor.
Life and work
Philippe Joseph Parmentier was born inFeluy
Feluy ( wa, Felû) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Seneffe, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
The first mention of the village is from 673, but the settlement probably dates back to the time of the Gauls. ...
in 1787. He was a son of the sculptor Antoine François Parmentier and Marie Madeleine Remiens. He received his first training from his father and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
in Paris
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, where he was a student of, among others, François Joseph Bosio
Baron François Joseph Bosio (19 March 1768 – 29 July 1845) was a Monegasque sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.
Biography
Born in ...
. Parmentier exhibited several times, including at the Brussels and Ghent Salon and the Exhibition of Living Masters
The Exhibition of Living Masters (Dutch: Tentoonstelling van Levende Meesters) was the name given to a series of exhibitions of contemporary art, held in various cities in the Netherlands, from 1808 to 1917.
History
Louis Bonaparte, the King of ...
in Amsterdam
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(1824) and Haarlem (1825). In 1836 he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest i ...
, a position he held until 1850.
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Year of birth uncertain 1784 births 1787 births 1867 deaths 19th-century Belgian sculptors 19th-century Belgian male artists People from Seneffe {{DEFAULTSORT:Parmentier, Philippe