“ In 1872 he exhibited at the Brussels Salon a marble statue, “Heliotrope” (Ghent Gallery) , and in 1875, at Brussels, “Beatrix” and “Domenica.” He was employed by the government to execute caryatides for the conservatoire at Brussels. In 1876 at the Antwerp Salon he had busts of E. Hiel and W. Wilson, which were afterwards placed in the communal museum at Brussels. Until 1882 he lived in Paris, where he produced the marble statue “Immortality” (Brussels Gallery) , and “The Crowning of Art,” a bronze group on the façade of the Palais des Beaux-Arts at Brussels. ”