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Honthoir, Jean-Arnold de
(b Liège, 1650; d Liège, 5 May 1709). Flemish sculptor. He was the son of a stonecutter and sculptor. Guillaume Cocquelé, his stepfather, was his first teacher. In 1672 Honthoir travelled to Italy, but by 1678 he was back in Liège, where he became the rival of Jean Delcour. During this period, Honthoir’s style was indebted to the classicism of François Du Quesnoy. Among several works produced for the wealthy connoisseurs, the Surlet brothers, were the marble monument to Jean-Ernest de Surlet (1688; Liège, St Lambert), which contains a portrait medallion, and the marble monument to Jean-Ignace de Surlet and his Wife in the Dominican church. He also created the marble monument with portrait bust to the Prince-Bishop Jean-Louis d’Elderen (1693; Liège, St Lambert). For the high altar of the Benedictine church, Liège, he carved marble figures of SS Benedict and Scholastica (now Liège, St Jacques), and a white marble relief of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple for the Dominican church (now Liège, Mus. A. Relig. A. Mosan). The Presentation, together with a marble Assumption of the Virgin from the altar of the Brotherhood of the Rosary, also in the Dominican church, reveals a certain clumsiness in the handling of the figures and in the construction of the perspective. Honthoir also created designs for decoration, for example his drawings of swags with trophies (Liège, Cab. Est. & Dessins).
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