period. Returning north in 1643, together with André Ghysels and his brother François (who was going to work for Louis XIII), they had reached Livorno when François contracted typhoid and died. Among the luggage were four large cases of models, most of which had been made by François. Once back in Brussels, Jérôme refused to hand them over to his siblings, as they were important for his own work. Jérôme was commissioned in 1644 to make Sts. Thomas, Andrew, Matthew and Paul for the nave of Sainte-Gudule; the other eight statues of apostles were by Lucas Faydherbe, Corneille van Mildert and Tobie de Lelis. In the following year, Jérôme was named “architecte, statuaire et sculpteur de la Cour” to Archduke Leopold William, Regent of the Netherlands (although hedid not take up residence in Brussels until April 1647). In 1649 Jérôme took charge of the work begun by Jacques Francquart in the Chapel of Our Lady, Ste. Gudule. Although he worked in marble, clay, wood and ivory, Jérôme also made a gold medal of Leopold William, which the sitter gave to David Teniers in 1650; in the same year Leopold William commissioned him to carve his portrait in marble (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). (9) He succeeded Francquart as Court Architect and Sculptor in 1651, and in the same year he completed the large marble figure of St. Ursula for the Chapelle des Tours et Taxis in Notre-Dame du Sablon. A signed marble bust of Antoine Triest (ob. 1657) (10) may predate work on a monument to the