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Pepers, Pieter, I
(b Bruges, 10 Oct 1730; d Bruges, 28 June 1785). Flemish sculptor. He trained in Bruges with the sculptor Pieter van Walleghem (1697–1776) and the painter Mathias de Visch (1702–65). In 1752 he travelled to Paris and continued his training in the workshop of René-Michel Slodtz. Pepers returned to Bruges in 1759; two years later he created the monumental pump with a lion and a bear in the Eiermarkt (egg market) in Bruges. In 1767 he made his best-known work, the statue of St John of Nepomuk on the Eeckhout bridge in the centre of Bruges. His group of Hercules Slaying the Nemean Lion, made in 1768 for the Decanal palace at Rooigem-St Kruis, near Bruges, employed a triangular composition and exaggerated anatomy to reinforce the violence of the subject. In general, however, Pepers’s work is more Rococo than Baroque in character. In 1779 he became a member of the Bruges academy. His son, Pieter Pepers II (1761–94), was also a sculptor.
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