Jan Baptist Xavery was a Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic. He produced portrait busts, large scale statues for residences and gardens, church furniture, wall decorations, tomb monuments as well as small scale statuettes in boxwood, lime wood, ivory and terracotta. The latter were made for elite collectors who liked to admire such objects in the privacy of their homes. He worked on various projects for William IV of Orange-Nassau, the Prince of Orange who later became the Stadtholder. He is regarded as the leading sculptor active in the Dutch Republic in the first half if the 18th century.
Marble relief with playful putti
Allegories of Music and Poetry St. Bavochurch, Haarlem, 1739
Portrait of Don Luis da Cunha
Funeral monument of Johan Theodoor Baron von Friesheim
William IV, Prince of Orange
William IV was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751. During his whole life he was furthermore ruler of the Principality of Orange-Nassau within the Holy Roman Empire.
Portrait by unknown artist (1750)
Portrait bust of William by Jan Baptist Xavery, 1733
Portrait of William by Jacques Aved, 1751