Jean Baptiste Joseph De Bay père

Jan Baptist Jozef de Bay, known as Jozef de Bay and Jean Baptiste Joseph de Bay the Elder, signed as De Bay Père (Mechelen, 16 October 1779–Paris, 1863) was a Flemish sculptor, museum conservator and art restorer.

[1] After training in Mechelen, Nantes and Paris,[2][3] he spent most of his active career in France where he executed many portrait sculptures in a classicist style.

[4] He was the son of Philippus de Bay (1754–1810) and his wife Anna Catharina Taeymans.

[5] De Bay was a pupil of Willem Egidius van Buscum and Jan Frans van Geel in Mechelen and subsequently Antoine-Denis Chaudet at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

In Paris he provided support and training to visiting sculptors from Mechelen such as Joseph Tuerlinckx and Louis Royer.