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Pompe, Walter [Walther]
(b Lith, North Brabant, 29 Nov 1703; d Antwerp, 6 Feb 1777). Dutch sculptor, active in Flanders. He trained in the Antwerp workshop of Michiel van der Voort I and became a master in the Guild of St Luke in 1730. He ran a busy studio that specialized in the production of small-scale devotional statues in marble, wood, terracotta and ivory, in an eclectic style ranging from the light-hearted Rococo of such works as the putti now in a private collection at Doorn (wood, 1733; see exh. cat., p. 73) to the solemn Baroque of his statues on the altar of S Peeter (marble, 1740) at Turnhout. The sculptures associated with his name vary in quality, and many must be studio productions. Among his best works are the classicizing statue of Justice (1733; in situ) for the town hall at Culemborg and the statues of St Peter and St Paul (terracotta, 1757) in St Andrew’s, Antwerp. His sons Pauwel-Martinus Pompe (1742–1822) and Jan-Engelbert Pompe (1743–1810) were also sculptors.
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