Mattheus van Beveren

With his second wife Suzanna Dooms he had 2 daughters, Catharina and Anna Maria, and two sons, Judocus and Mattheus II, who both became sculptors.

[7] Van Beveren was a versatile artist in terms of the subject range of his sculptures as well as the materials in which he worked.

[3] Van Beveren's style combines the classicist tendency of the Brussels sculptors Jerôme Duquesnoy (I) and his son François Duquesnoy with the baroque realism of his Antwerp contemporaries Pieter Verbrugghen II and Artus Quellinus the Younger who were more influenced by the style of Rubens.

An example of the latter is the group of allegorical figures representing Virtue, Fame and Time created for the funerary chapel of Duke Lamoral of Thorn and Taxis (in the Our Blessed Lady of Zavel Church in Brussels) of which a terracotta model is kept at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.

He assisted Lucas Faydherbe with the painted wood and stone high altar in the St Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen.

The Brussels sculptor Jan Cosijn, for instance, sculpted the marble statues for the funerary chapel of Duke Lamoral of Thurn and Taxis after a design by van Beveren.

[6] Beautiful examples are the Cupid on a lion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Maria Apocalyptica in the Rijksmuseum.