Louis Samain



Louis Samain (July 4, 1834 – October 24, 1901) was a Belgian sculptor. Samain was born in Nivelles, and studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under Louis Simonis. After winning the Belgian Prix de Rome, he lived for a time in Italy. In 1889, he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle, and in 1895 his work was shown at the Société des Artistes Français in Paris. He died in Ixelles.

Selected works

 * Architecture, on the facade of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
 * Earth and Water, at les Halles centrales (destroyed in 1956)
 * Italian Arts and Spanish Arts, in the garden of the Musée des Beaux-Arts
 * Jean van Ruysbroeck
 * Monument to Work, formerly on the old Gare de Bruxelles-Midi
 * Nègres marrons surpris par des chiens (also known as Esclave repris par les chiens)
 * Thémis, on the Palais de Justice in Dinant
 * Tinctoris in Nivelles