for the Walloon knight, see Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing

Jacques de Lalaing was a Walloon knight of the 15th century. He was originally in the service of the Duke of Cleves and afterwards in that of the Duke of Burgundy, Philip III, the Good, gaining great renown by his prowess in the tiltyard....

Jacques de Lalaing (1858-1917) was an Anglo-Belgian painter and sculptor, specializing in animals.

Life

Born in London as the son of a Belgian diplomat and an English aristocrat, Lalaing was raised in England until 1875, when he moved to Brussels. He trained as an artist under Jean-François Portaels

Jean-François Portaels

Jean-François Portaels was a Belgian orientalist painter and director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.- Life :...

 and Louis Gallait

Louis Gallait

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 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts

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 in Brussels, showing first as a painter with the group L'Essor

L'Essor

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.

With the encouragement of Thomas Vinçotte

Thomas Vinçotte

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 and Jef Lambeaux

Jef Lambeaux

Jef Lambeaux was a Belgian sculptor born in Antwerp. He studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, and was a pupil of Jean Geefs. His first work, War, was exhibited in 1871, and was followed by a long series of humorous groups, including Children dancing, Say Good Morning, The Lucky Number and;...

, Lalaing began to sculpt in 1884. As a painter he continued to work in a realistic, naturalistic style, as a portrait painter and producing historical scenes. As a sculptor he produced allegorical bronzes and memorial art. Along with his fellow animalier

Animalier

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 sculptors Léon Mignon

Léon Mignon

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 (1847-1898) and Antoine-Félix Bouré

Antoine-Félix Bouré

Antoine-Félix Bouré , known in his own time as Félix Bouré but sometimes found in modern scholarship as Antoine Bouré, was a Belgian sculptor, best known for his monumental lions.-Life and career:...

 (1831-1883), Lalaing established a distinctively Belgian tradition of animal art, to which the flourishing Antwerp Zoo

Antwerp Zoo

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 contributed inspiration.

In 1896 Lalaing became a member of the Royal Academy where he'd studied, and from 1904 through 1913 he served as its director. His works are represented in the collections of museums in Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent and Tournai.

Work

• The equestrian bronze of Leopold I of Belgium
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    in Ostend
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• The horseman battle bronze group at the entrance of the Bois de la Cambre
  Bois de la Cambre
  Ter Kamerenbos or Bois de la Cambre is an urban public park on the edge of the Sonian Forest in Brussels, Belgium. It has an area of 1.23 square kilometres. The park lies in the south of the Brussels-Capital Region, and in the municipality of the City of Brussels...
  
  , Brussels
• memorial to British soldiers in the Battle of Waterloo
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  , Schaerbeek Cemetery
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  , Brussels, 1890
• 22-meter bronze pylon at the corner of Louis-Bertrand Avenue and Deschanel in Schaerbeek, originally made for the Ghent Exposition in 1913
• A group of three bronzes representing the Three Ages of Man, Square Ambiorix, Brussels
• interior work at the Hotel de Ville of Saint-Gilles
  Saint-Gilles, Belgium
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  , including allegorical figures of Education and Justice