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PAUL DE VIGNE (1843-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL DE See also:VIGNE (1843-1901)  , Belgian sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Ghent . He was trained by his See also:father, a statuary, and began by exhibiting his " Fra See also:Angelico da See also:Fiesole " at the Ghent See also:Salon in 1868 . In 1872 he exhibited at the See also:Brussels Salon a See also:marble statue, " See also:Heliotrope " (Ghent See also:Gallery), and in 1875, at Brussels, " Beatrix " and " Domenica." He was employed by the See also:government to execute See also:caryatides for the See also:conservatoire at Brussels . In 1876 at the See also:Antwerp Salon he had busts of E . Hiel and W . See also:Wilson, which were afterwards placed in the communal museum at Brussels . Until 1882 he lived in See also:Paris, where he produced the marble statue " See also:Immortality " (Brussels Gallery), and " The Crowning of See also:Art," a See also:bronze See also:group on the See also:facade of the Palais See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts at Brussels . His See also:monument to the popular heroes, See also:Jean Breydel and See also:Pierre de Coninck, was unveiled at See also:Bruges in 1887 . At his See also:death he See also:left unfinished his See also:principal See also:work, the Anspach monument, which was erected at Brussels under the direction of the architect Janlet with the co-operation of various sculptors . Among other notable See also:works by De See also:Vigne may be mentioned " Volumnia " (1875); " Poverella " (1878); a bronze bust of " See also:Psyche " (Brussels Gallery), of which there is an See also:ivory replica; the marble statue of Marnix de Ste Aldegonde in the Square du Sablon, Brussels; the Metdepenningen monument in the See also:cemetery at Ghent; and the monument to See also:Canon de Haerne at Courtrai . See E . L .

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Les Artistes Belges contemporains (Brussels), and O . G . Destree, The See also:Renaissance of See also:Sculpture in See also:Belgium (See also:London, 1895) .

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