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Guyot de Beaugrant (circle)

Adoring figures polychrome and gilt terracotta, 41x41x27cm. (losses) This group compares with the work of the Netherlandish sculptor Guyot de Beaugrant and his brother Jean, who settled in Bilbao and operated in the Basque Country, Navarre and Rioja. Born in Lorraine, Guyot de Beaugrant first established his reputation in Flanders, where he worked for Margaret of Austria, and executed the important chimney in Bruges celebrating the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1533 he emigrated to Spain, where he was responsible for the high altar for the church of Santiago in Bilbao and for the retable from the church of Nuestra Señora at Elvillar de Alava. Jean de Beaugrant worked closely with his brother and the two are thought to have headed their own itinerant workshops. Due to a lack of documentary evidence, relatively few works are firmly attributed to them, despite the fact that they were clearly very successful in their lifetimes.