Egid Verhelst the Elder

[3] He received his first training in Antwerp and probably came to the workshop of the Flemish Willem de Groff in Paris.

He also worked for Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in Brussels and was called to the Wittelsbach court after his return to Munich in 1716.

As a result, Verhelst came to Munich in 1718, worked for several years in de Groff's workshop and joined the circle of court artists.

On 19 November 1724, he married Maria Benedicta Hagn in Munich, who worked with him as a wax modeller, sculpting after his designs.

[3] His daughter Anna Franziska Walburga married the copper engraver Johann Rudolf Störchlin (c. 1720 – c. 1754) and then painter Joseph Christ (1731–1788) in her second marriage.