(b Grammont, 22 May 1644; d Ehrenstein, nr Aachen, 20 June 1730). Flemish sculptor, active in Germany. He was the son of a Milanese cavalry captain and a Flemish mother. He trained in Antwerp with the sculptor Artus Quellinus I from 1658 and probably took part in the sculptural decoration of the Stadhuis in Amsterdam. He was in France before 1670; there he would have seen the sculptural work at the château of Versailles, executed under the direction of Charles Le Brun and François Girardon. In 1673 he was a master in the guild of the Four Crowned Heads in Brussels. He became municipal sculptor and, in 1688, court sculptor to Charles II of Spain. Among his works dating from this period are the classicizing garden statues of Diana and Narcissus (marble, c. 1670–75; Brussels, Mus. A. Anc.) and the elaborate Rubensian wall fountain with marine gods (marble, 1675; Brussels, Mus. A. Anc.), made for the fishmongers’ guild of Brussels.

• Grupello, Gabriel
  • Belgium, §IV, 3: Sculpture, c 1550–1830
  • Wittelsbach, §II: (3) John William, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and Count Palatine of Neuburg
  • collaboration
    • Quellinus: (3) Artus Quellinus (i)
  • copies
    • Stanley: (1) Simon Carl Stanley
  • patrons and collectors
    • Düsseldorf, §2: Art life and organization
  • teachers
    • Germany, §IV, 3(ii)(b): Sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: Central and northern Germany
  • works
    • Amsterdam, §V, 2: Royal Palace
    • Crucifix, §3(iii): Sculpted: Baroque and after
    • Statuette, §II, 2(i): Renaissance and Baroque: Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries