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{{Short description|Anglo-Belgian painter and sculptor}}
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[[File:Cimetière de Bruxelles 02b.jpg|thumb|Waterloo Memorial, Brussels Cemetery]]
'''Jacques de Lalaing''' (1858–1917) was an Anglo-Belgian painter and sculptor, specializing in animals.

== Life ==
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Jacques was born in London in one of the oldest noble families of Belgium. He was the son of Count [[Maximilien IV de Lalaing]] (1811–1881). His brother was [[Charles Maximilien de Lalaing]] (1857–1919), who was an important diplomat.

Lalaing was raised in England until 1875, when he moved to Brussels. He trained as an artist under [[Jean-François Portaels]] and [[Louis Gallait]] at the [[Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts]] in Brussels, showing first as a painter with the group [[L'Essor (artist group)|L'Essor]].

With the encouragement of [[Thomas Vinçotte]] and [[Jef Lambeaux]], Lalaing began to sculpt in 1884. As a painter he continued to work in a realistic, naturalistic style, as a portrait painter and producing historical scenes. As a sculptor he produced allegorical bronzes and memorial art. Along with his fellow [[animalier]] sculptors [[Léon Mignon]] (1847–1898) and [[Antoine-Félix Bouré]] (1831–1883), Lalaing established a distinctively Belgian tradition of animal art, to which the flourishing [[Antwerp Zoo]] contributed inspiration.<ref>Verbraeken, [http://fr.artquid.com/page/65/histoire-de-la-sculpture-en-belgique.html ArtQuid]</ref>

In 1896 Lalaing became a member of the Royal Academy where he had studied, and from 1904 through 1913 he served as its director. His works are represented in the collections of museums in Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent and Tournai.

== Works ==
[[File:Lutte équestre 01.JPG|thumb|Battle of Horsemen bronze, [[Bois de la Cambre]], Brussels]]
* The equestrian bronze of [[Leopold I of Belgium]] in [[Ostend]]
* The horseman battle bronze group at the entrance of the [[Bois de la Cambre]], Brussels
* memorial to British soldiers in the [[Battle of Waterloo]], [[Brussels Cemetery]], Brussels, 1890
* 22-meter bronze pylon at the corner of Louis-Bertrand Avenue and Deschanel in Schaerbeek, originally made for the Ghent Exposition in 1913
* A group of three bronzes representing the ''Three Ages of Man'', Square Ambiorix, Brussels
* interior work at the Hotel de Ville of [[Saint-Gilles, Belgium|Saint-Gilles]], including allegorical figures of ''Education'' and ''Justice''

=== Bibliography ===
* Max Waller, ''Le salon de Brussels - 1884'', Brussels, 1884.
* Jules Du Jardin, ''Les artistes contemporains'', Brussels, 1900.
* [[Van Dievoet family|Albert Van Dievoet]], « La participation des Belges à l'exposition quatriennale à Munich », dans : ''L'Expansion Belge'', VII, août 1909, p.&nbsp;485.
* Francis Vurgey, « À l'atelier de Lalaing », dans ''La Fédération Artistique'', Brussels, 6 décembre 1903.
* P. Lambotte, ''Le comte Jacques de Lalaing, peintre et sculpteur, 1858–1917'', Anvers, 1918.
* Charles Conrardy, ''La sculpture belge au XIXe siècle'', Brussels, 1947.
* ''Jean Portaels et ses élèves'', catalogue d'exposition, Brussels, Musées royaux, 1979.
* Gérald Schurr, ''1820-1920, les petits maîtres de la peinture: valeur de demain'', Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1979. 
* Hugo Lettens, Raymond Petiau, Hubert Verbruggen, Véronique Cnudde et Richard Kerremans, ''Le mât électrique : Jacques de Lalaing, 1858–1917'', Schaerbeek, 1993, 133 p. 
* Jacques van Lennep et Catherine Leclercq, ''Les sculptures de Bruxelles'', Anvers et Brussels, 2000.
* Catherine Leclercq, ''Jacques de Lalaing : artiste et homme du monde (1858–1917), avec de larges extraits de son journal'', Brussels, Académie royale de Belgique, 2006, 443 p. {{ISBN|2-8031-0232-3}}.
* ''L'art au Sénat : découverte d'un patrimoine'', Brussels : éditions Racine, 2006 {{ISBN|978-90-209-6880-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wg973NkTwVsC&dq=%22jacques+de+lalaing%22+1858&pg=PA64].
* Hugh Robert Boudin, « de Lalaing, Jacques », in :  ''Dictionnaire historique du protestantisme et de l'anglicanisme en Belgique du 16e siècle à nos jours'', Arquennes, 2014 {{ISBN|978-2-930698-06-9}}.
* Alain Jacobs,  https://collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/43895 https://collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/42762https://collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/43885https://collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/43914

== References ==
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==External links==
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