Rombaut Pauwels

François Duquesnoy ran a very successful workshop in Rome which produced sculptures in a classicizing Baroque style.

[3][4] Pauwels was a capable sculptor who worked in the classicizing Baroque style pioneered by François Duquesnoy but he lacked the virtuoso technique of his contemporaries Artus Quellinus and Lucas Faydherbe with whom he regularly collaborated.

In Ghent, he completed various commissions such as the Baroque gate to the local fish market which was a collaborative effort with Artus Quellinus and J.B. van Helderbergh.

In Mechelen, he collaborated with the leading Baroque sculptor of the city, Lucas Faydherbe, on the tomb of Archbishop Andreas Creusen (1660) and an altar (1660–1665) in St. Rumbold's Cathedral.

[2] A terracotta Virgin with Child and Saint John the Baptist (c.1650, exhibited in Paris in 2013, private collection) is a more dynamic work.