Model voor het praalgraf van luitenant-generaal Johan Theodoor baron von Friesheim

About this artwork

signature and date, on the left side of the plinth, incised in the wet clay: ‘J:B: XAVERY / 1731. F:’

About the Artist

Jan Baptist Xavery · 1697–1742

**Jan Baptist Xavery** (1697–1742) was a Flemish sculptor born in Antwerp who became the leading figure in sculpture in the Dutch Republic during the first half of the eighteenth century. He worked across a wide range of media and scales, from intimate ivory and terracotta statuettes for private collectors to monumental garden statues, portrait busts, church furnishings, and elaborate tomb monumen...