Guillaume de Groot
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Guillaume de Groot was a Belgian sculptor.
Born in Brussels, he trained with sculptor Égide Mélot. His work includes:
Born in Brussels, he trained with sculptor Égide Mélot. His work includes:
- figures of NamurNamur (province)Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...
and LuxembourgLuxembourg (Belgium)Luxembourg is the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. It borders on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, France, and the Belgian provinces of Namur and Liège. Its capital is Arlon, in the south-east of the province.It has an area of 4,443 km², making it the largest Belgian province...
at the arch of the CinquantenaireCinquantenaireParc du Cinquantenaire or Jubelpark is a large public, urban park in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium....
in Brussels - four reclining figures on the window pediments at the Brussels Stock ExchangeBrussels Stock ExchangeThe Brussels Stock Exchange was founded in Brussels, Belgium, by Napoleonic decree in 1801. On September 22, 2000, the BSE merged with Paris Bourse, Lisbon Stock Exchange and the stock exchanges of Amsterdam, to form Euronext N.V., the first pan-European exchange for equities and derivatives,...
, for architect Léon SuysLéon SuysLéon-Pierre Suys was a Belgian architect.Suys's father Tilman-François Suys was the architect of King Leopold I, and the founder of the Belgian Royal Commission of Sites and Monuments, of which his friend François-Joseph Navez was also a member...
, circa 1870 - figure of Music, one of four figures on the piers of the facade, as well as the gilded Genius of Art, atop the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumThe Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , is one of the most famous museums in Belgium.-The museum:...
for architect Alphonse BalatAlphonse BalatAlphonse Hubert François Balat was a Belgian architect.He studied at the Academie of Namur and obtained his degree in architecture from the Academy of Antwerp in 1838....
, circa 1875 - heroic figure of Labor for the Tournai railway stationTournai Railway StationThe railway station of Tournai, in Belgium, is situated on line 94. The first train arrived there on 24 January 1842.A first neo-classical stone building dating from the 1840s was later dismantled and replaced to serve as the railway station of the...
, 1881 - bronze statue of Charles RogierCharles RogierCharles Latour Rogier was a Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He became Prime Minister of Belgium on two separate occasions: from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1857 to 1868....
, Place de la Liberté, 1897