Hubert Le Sueur

Equestrian statue of Charles I. Cast 1633, by Hubert Le Sueur, Trafalgar Square, London

Hubert Le Sueur (c. 1580[1] – 1658)[2] was a French sculptor with the contemporaneous reputation of having trained in Giambologna's Florentine workshop.[3] He assisted Giambologna's foreman, Pietro Tacca, in Paris, in finishing and erecting the equestrian statue of Henri IV on the Pont Neuf. He moved to England and spent the most productive decades of his working career there, providing monuments, portraits and replicas of classical antiquities for the court of Charles I, where his main rival was Francesco Fanelli.

  1. ^ He witnessed a baptism at Saint-Sulpice in 1602. (Geoffrey Webb, "Notes on Hubert Le Sueur-I" The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 52No. 298 (January 1928), p. 10.
  2. ^ "Praxiteles" Le Sueur, he liked to style himself, according to Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique 1981:31.
  3. ^ In Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman, (London) 1634, see note below.