Jan Frans van Geel (Mechelen, 18 September 1756 – Antwerp, 20 January 1830)[1] was a Flemish sculptor, draugthsman and art educator.[2] He is mainly known for his church furniture, statues of saints, mythological ensembles and allegorical figures.[3] He was a teacher and director at the Academy of Arts of Mechelen and teacher of sculpture at the Academy of Arts of Antwerp.[4] He was one of the last Flemish sculptors who worked in the Flemish Baroque style in sculpture, which was popular in the Habsburg Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries.[3]
- ^ Guillielmus Judocus Joannes van Melckebeke, Levensschets van den beeldhouwer Jan-Frans Van Geel, J. E. Buschmann, Antwerp, 1858
- ^ Geel, Johannes Franciscus van in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- ^ a b Jan Frans van Geel at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^ Félix Stappaert, GEEL (Jean-François) VAN Biographie nationale de Belgique, pp. 541-542