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Delvaux, Laurent
(b Ghent, 17 Jan 1696; d Nivelles, 24 Feb 1778). South Netherlandish sculptor, active also in England. After training in the studio of Pieter-Denis Plumier in Antwerp, he left in 1717 for London, where he formed an association with his compatriot Peter Scheemakers the younger. They were joined shortly afterwards by Plumier and collaborated on a number of marble funerary monuments, including that in Westminster Abbey to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1721). After Plumier’s death in 1721 it is assumed that Delvaux and Scheemakers collaborated with Francis Bird on the marble monument to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle (d 1711), also in Westminster Abbey. Vertue relates that the following year Delvaux made a life-size marble statue of Hercules (Waddesdon Manor, Bucks, NT) for Richard Tylney (1680–1750), Viscount Castlemaine. Among the last collaborative works made by Delvaux with Scheemakers are the marble funerary monuments to Lewis Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Rockingham, and his Wife (c. 1725; St Leonard, Rockingham, Northants) and to Sir Samuel Ongley (1726; St Leonard, Old Warden, Beds).
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