page_title: Peter Van Dievoet
section_title: Time in Brussels
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Van Dievoet / Time in Brussels
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter van Dievoet (1661-1729)
context_page_description: Peter van Dievoet was a sculptor, statuary, wood carver, and designer of ornamental architectural features from Brussels.
  He became famous thanks to his work on a number of the guild houses of the Grand Place which needed to be rebuilt after the bombardment of 1695 and on the Statue of James II in Trafalgar Square, London.
  He was the brother of Philippe van Dievoet, goldsmith to Louis XIV and the uncle of the Parisian printer Guillaume Vandive.
context_section_description: Having returned to his hometown around 1689, Van Dievoet had to meet the requirements of the corporate institution and enrol in the corporation of the Quatre-Couronnés, the Guild of the stonemasons, of which he was officially received as master in 1695. It is at this date that his work in Brussels begins. That same year, Brussels was destroyed by the French bombardment. 
  Already during his lifetime, Peter Van Dievoet was considered a renowned sculptor.
  Long after his death, a report of the magistrates of Brussels to Charles-Alexandre of Lorraine, dated 27 September 1771, quotes Peter Van Dievoet in a list of "very remarkable Brussels sculptors".
  From his Brussels work, we still know only of the pieces mentioned by Guillaume Des Marez, while waiting for other "discoveries" or authentications. He is mainly known there for his realisations and conceptions of many of the guild houses of the famous Grand Place.
  The following are his work as described by Des Marez.
caption: Detail from the wood-carved ornamentation of festoons and fruits by Peter Van Dievoet (Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels). Photo by Patrick Damiaens.
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