Pedro Van Dievoet

Pedro van Dievoet
Información personal
Nacimiento	1661 ; Bruselas (Bélgica)
Fallecimiento	1729 ; Bruselas (Bélgica)
Residencia	Bruselas y Londres
Religión	Catolicismo
Información profesional
Ocupación	Escultor y arquitecto
Firma
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Pedro van Dievoet (Fr. Pierre van Dievoet, Nl. Peeter van Dievoet, Ing. Peter van Dievoet) fue un escultor, estatuario, tallista de madera y diseñador flamenco de motivos arquitectónicos de decoración. Es conocido por su trabajo en varias de las casas gremiales barrocas de la Grand-Place (la plaza principal de Bruselas),^[1] reconstruida tras el bombardeo de Bruselas por parte de tropas francesas en 1695, así como su participación en la estatua de Jacobo II de Inglaterra^[2] en Trafalgar Square, Londres.^[3]

Nació en Bruselas, el 29 de junio de 1661 bautizados en la Iglesia de Santa Gúdula, murió el 2 de marzo de 1729 en Bruselas.^[4]

Referencias

↑ Éric Hennaut, "Les couleurs de la Grand-Place. Notes sur les parements des façades après le bombardement de 1695", in Autour du bombardement de Bruxelles de 1695. Désastre et relèvement, p. 65, note 11 : "A.G.R., Métiers et Sements de Brabant 286 (corporation des Brasseurs), comptes 1696-1701 ; A.G.R., Notariat Général de Brabant 1987 (notaire P. Van Cutsem), 18 mars 1697, contract for sculpture with Peter van Dievoet : Item sullen de aenbesteder moeten leveren de noodighe avendersteenen tot het maecken van de voors. wercken."
↑ Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue ; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole, London, 1765, vol. III, p. 91 : "Gibbons had several disciples and workmen; Selden I have mentioned; Watson assisted chiefly at Chatsworth, where the boys and many of the ornaments in the chapel were executed by him. Dievot of Brussels, and Laurens of Mechlin were principal journeymen — Vertue says they modelled and cast the statue I have mentioned in the privy-garden". According to David Green, in Grinling Gibbons, his work as carver and statuary (London, 1964), one Smooke sayd to Vertue that this statue "was modelled and made by Laurence and Devoot [sic]" ; George Vertue, Note Books, ed. Walpole Society, Oxford, 1930-47, vol. I, p.82 : "Lawrence. Dyvoet. statuarys", and ibidem IV, 50 : "Laurens a statuary of Mechlin... Dievot a statuary of Brussels both these artists were in England and assisted Mr. Gibbons in statuary works in K. Charles 2d. and K. James 2d. time, they left England in the troubles of the Revolution and retird to their own country".
↑ Vif, La rédaction du (20 de noviembre de 2008). «Artistes, de père en fils». Le Vif (en fr-BE). Consultado el 15 de abril de 2023.
↑ Brussels, registers of baptisms of Saint Gudula of 29 June 1661 : "29 Junius 1661. Petrus filius legitimus Ægidii Van Dievoet, et Gertrudis Zevart. Suscept : Amplissimus D. Petrus Stockmans Curiae Brab: Consiliarius, et Dlla Maria de Smet".

Datos: Q115867
Multimedia: Peter van Dievoet / Q115867

[1] Éric Hennaut, "Les couleurs de la Grand-Place. Notes sur les parements des façades après le bombardement de 1695", in Autour du bombardement de Bruxelles de 1695. Désastre et relèvement, p. 65, note 11 : "A.G.R., Métiers et Sements de Brabant 286 (corporation des Brasseurs), comptes 1696-1701 ; A.G.R., Notariat Général de Brabant 1987 (notaire P. Van Cutsem), 18 mars 1697, contract for sculpture with Peter van Dievoet : Item sullen de aenbesteder moeten leveren de noodighe avendersteenen tot het maecken van de voors. wercken."

[2] Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue ; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole, London, 1765, vol. III, p. 91 : "Gibbons had several disciples and workmen; Selden I have mentioned; Watson assisted chiefly at Chatsworth, where the boys and many of the ornaments in the chapel were executed by him. Dievot of Brussels, and Laurens of Mechlin were principal journeymen — Vertue says they modelled and cast the statue I have mentioned in the privy-garden". According to David Green, in Grinling Gibbons, his work as carver and statuary (London, 1964), one Smooke sayd to Vertue that this statue "was modelled and made by Laurence and Devoot [sic]" ; George Vertue, Note Books, ed. Walpole Society, Oxford, 1930-47, vol. I, p.82 : "Lawrence. Dyvoet. statuarys", and ibidem IV, 50 : "Laurens a statuary of Mechlin... Dievot a statuary of Brussels both these artists were in England and assisted Mr. Gibbons in statuary works in K. Charles 2d. and K. James 2d. time, they left England in the troubles of the Revolution and retird to their own country".

[3] Vif, La rédaction du (20 de noviembre de 2008). «Artistes, de père en fils». Le Vif (en fr-BE). Consultado el 15 de abril de 2023.

[4] Brussels, registers of baptisms of Saint Gudula of 29 June 1661 : "29 Junius 1661. Petrus filius legitimus Ægidii Van Dievoet, et Gertrudis Zevart. Suscept : Amplissimus D. Petrus Stockmans Curiae Brab: Consiliarius, et Dlla Maria de Smet".

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Pedro van Dievoet

Información personal
Nacimiento	1661 Bruselas (Bélgica)
Fallecimiento	1729 Bruselas (Bélgica)
Residencia	Bruselas y Londres
Religión	Catolicismo
Información profesional
Ocupación	Escultor y arquitecto
Firma
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