page_title: Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen / Life
caption_attribution_description: Détail de la chaire en bois sculpté,représentant Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis Terrestre.Cathédrale Saint Michel,Bruxelles. Auteur: nl:Hendrik Frans Verbruggen
context_page_description: Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen or Hendrik Frans Verbruggen was a Flemish sculptor and draftsman, who is best known for his Baroque church furniture in various Belgian churches.
context_section_description: He was born into a family from which in the 17th and 18th century a number of prominent sculptors emerged who were mainly active in Antwerp. His father, the sculptor Pieter Verbrugghen I, was one of the principal representatives of Flemish high baroque sculpture. The father had been a pupil of Erasmus Quellinus I, who was himself the founder of a prominent family of artists. The father married the daughter of his master Erasmus Quellinus. From this marriage Hendrik Frans Verbruggen was born. His brother Pieter Verbrugghen II was also a sculptor and worked in the workshop of his father.
  Hendrik Frans Verbruggen was trained by his father. Nonetheless, he did not start his career as a sculptor but as a draughtsman working with the illuminator Jan Ruyselinck. It can not be ruled out that like his brother Pieter, he made a trip to Italy after completing his training. This trip has not been documented. The obvious influence of the Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini on his work could also be explained by Hendrik Frans Verbruggen drawing inspiration from the drawings after the works of Bernini and antique sculptures that his brother made in Rome.
  He became a master sculptor at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1682. That year he married Susanna Verhulst. He became dean of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1689. In 1713 he went bankrupt but this did not prevent him from completing ongoing commissions.
  He was the master of Egidius Adrianus Nijs and Marcus de Cock.
caption: Eve and Death, detail of the pulpit in the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels
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