Philippe de Buyster (1595 – 1688), was a Flemish-French sculptor.

Biography

He was born in Antwerp and became a pupil of Gillis van Papenhoven.Philippe de Buyster
in the

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He moved to

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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.

References

1595 births 1688 deaths Flemish sculptors (before 1830) 17th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Artists from Antwerp Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to France {{sculptor-stub