Jan Baptist Xavery
Flemish-Dutch sculptor
Died when: 45 years 111 days (543 months)Star Sign: Aries
Jan Baptist Xavery or Jan Baptist Xavery (30 March 1697, in Antwerp – 19 July 1742, in Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic.
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.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.
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