Claude Lamoureux (sculptor)

Claude Lamoureux (c. 1650 – after 1699) was a French sculptor who worked in Sweden and in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] He is best known for assisting his brother with the creation of the first equestrian statue in northern Europe.

Claude Lamoureux
Bornc. 1650
Diedafter 1699
Known forSculpture
Notable work
Allegorical statues for the Equestrian statue of king Christian V, Copenhagen
StyleBaroque sculpture
Spouse(s)Anne Marie Pedersdatter Stephensen
Patron(s)Christian V of Denmark

Life and work

The date and place of the birth of Claude Lamoureux are unknown. He was the younger brother of the sculptor Abraham-César Lamoureux,[2][3] and he had a younger sister Magdalena, who was born in Hamburg (Germany) around 1660.[4]

He probably came to Sweden with his stepfather Jean Baptiste Dieussart,[5] who in 1664 entered service with count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, the Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.[6] Lamoureux, like his brother, was probably an apprentice or assistant of his stepfather.[7]

In 1681, Lamoureux as well as his siblings and their families (his brother's family and his sister's husband, the Swedish sculptor and stonemason Johann Gustav Stockenberg)[2] moved to Copenhagen in Denmark, where his brother Abraham-César was employed as court sculptor for Christian V of Denmark.[3]

Around 1685, Lamoureux married Anne Marie Pedersdatter Stephensen, a local woman, with whom he had four known children between 1686 and 1698.[3] From 1686 he was employed as his brother's assistant, receiving an annual salary of 100 rigsdalers.[1][3] After his brother's death around April 1692 (Abraham-César was buried in Copenhagen's Trinitatis Church on the 27th of April 1692)[8] he completed his brother's work, adding four allegorical statues to the Pedestal of the Equestrian statue of Christian V in 1695.[1][9][10]

In 1699, Lamoureux left the service of the Danish court and was paid the expenses for leaving Denmark.[3] What became of him afterwards is unknown, as are the date and place of his death.

Known works
Minerva and Hercules
Artemis and Alexander the Great

Literature
  • Hans Vollmer, ed. (1928), "Lamoureux, französ. Bildhauerfamilie", Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German), 22, Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, p. 270
  • Philip Weilbach (1877), "L'Amoureux. Claude L'Amoureux", Dansk Konstnerlexikon (in Danish), Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, p. 32

References
  1. Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen, "Claude Lamoureux", Kunstindeks Danmark: Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (in Danish), Copenhagen: Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces, retrieved 2019-04-09
  2. Bertil Waldén (1942), Nicolaes Millich och hans krets: studier i den karolinska barockens bildhuggarkonst (in Swedish), Stockholm: Saxon & Lindströms förlag
  3. Marius Audin (1912), "Histoire d'un tailleur d'images : François Lamoureux", Revue d'histoire de Lyon : études, documents, bibliographie (in French), Lyon: A. Rey, pp. 358–385
  4. Emil Marquard (1925), "Abraham Cæsar Lamoureux", in Østifternes historisk-topografiske selskab (ed.), Fra arkiv og museum, Serie 2 (in Danish), Copenhagen: Arnold Busck, pp. 245–247, retrieved 2019-04-09
  5. Bertil Waldén (1945), "Jean Baptista Dieussart", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish), retrieved 2019-04-09
  6. August Hahr (1905), "Konst och konstnärer vid Magnus Gabriel de La Gardies hof: bidrag till den svenska konstforskningen", Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Uppsala (in Swedish), IX, Uppsala: Akademiska Bokhandeln, retrieved 2019-04-09
  7. Henrik Cornell (1966), Den svenska konstens historia. (in Swedish), 1, Stockholm: Aldus/Bonnier
  8. "Abraham César Lamoureux", Kunstindeks Danmark: Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (in Danish), Copenhagen: Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces, retrieved 2019-04-09
  9. F.J. Meier (1887), "l'Amoureux Abraham César", in Carl Frederik Bricka (ed.), Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish), I. BIND Aaberg - Beaumelle, Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, p. 196
  10. Vagn Poulsen; Erik Lassen; Jan Danielsen, eds. (1973), "Abraham-César Lamoureux", Dansk kunsthistorie: Billedkunst og skulptur (in Danish), 2, Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag, p. 311
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