François Dieussart

François Dieussart (also Frans; Armentières, c. 1600 – London, 1661) was a Walloon sculptor who worked for court patrons in England, the Dutch Republic and northern Europe, producing portrait busts in the Italianate manner.

He appears in an entry from 1622 at the charitable organisation run at the Church of St. Julian of the Flemings and had become its director by 1630.

He was invited to England by the Earl of Arundel in 1636, and made a reputation there with the construction of a magnificent mechanical monstrance forty feet (12.2 metres) high for Queen Henrietta Maria's chapel at Somerset House.

[4] He is mentioned in a poem by Cornelis de Bie in his book Het Gulden Cabinet as being court sculptor for the Stuarts in England.

[5] A brief biographical sketch for Dieussart was published in the early art dictionary Teutsche Academie by Joachim von Sandrart.

Bust of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia . Marble, circa 1641 CE. By Francois Dieussart. From the Dutch Republic, Now the Netherlands. The Victoria and Albert Museum , London
Bust of Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange in Sanssouci .
Dieussart's bust of Frederick III of Denmark .