Johannes Thomas Forceville

[1] He was the son of Jean-Baptist, the first organ builder of the Forceville family who had moved to Antwerp from Saint-Omer,[1][2] and his first wife Magdalena Cannaert.

[1] In the period 1711–1713 he also collaborated with his father on the construction of the organ in the Saint Lambert Church [nl] in Ekeren.

He started working autonomously since at least 1734, when he restored the organ of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in association with Egide Le Blas.

[1] He returned to the atelier of his father in 1737, succeeding him in the works for the Chapelle royale of Brussels.

He died in 1750 while working on a larger commission in the Basilica of Saint Servatius [de; nl] in Grimbergen.