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Jan Baptist Xavery
Flemish sculptor
Jan Baptist Xavery (30 March 1697, in Antwerp – 19 July 1742, in Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic.[1] He produced portrait busts, large scale statues for residences and gardens, church furniture, wall decorations, tomb monuments as well as small scale statuettes in boxwood, lime wood, ivory and terracotta.
The latter were made for elite collectors who liked to admire such objects in the privacy of their homes.[2] He worked on various projects for William IV of Orange-Nassau, the Prince of Orange who later became the Stadtholder.
He is regarded as the leading sculptor active in the Dutch Republic in the first half if the 18th century.[3]
Life
He was the son of the sculptor Albert Xavery and Catharina Maria Herry (Herri).
He had a younger brother called Gerardus Josephus who became a painter. His father probably taught him before he entered the studio of Michiel van de