Charles Samuel - Carrara Marble Sculpture "honor To Mom"

Magnificent Carrara marble statue of 5 children paying homage to their mother.

The statue is made by the famous Belgian sculptor Charles Samuel.

Charles Samuel, is a Belgian sculptor and medalist, born in Brussels (Belgium) on December 29, 1862 and died in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) on January 31, 1938. Charles Samuel is the son of Luc Samuel, money changer from Rotterdam and Elisabeth Vaz. He married in Paris on December 17, 1900, to Clotilde Kleeberg, a virtuoso pianist, who died on February 7, 1909, then to Juliette Blum, a Canadian painter and sculptor who died in 1931.

After an apprenticeship in goldsmithing with a friend of his father, the sculptor and medalist Léopold Wiener (himself initially trained by his sculptor brother Jacques Wiener), studies sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels with teachers Eugène Simonis, Joseph Jaquet and Charles Van der Stappen then for the medal with the goldsmith-sculptor Philippe Wolfers, he began his career as a goldsmith and continued with a brilliant career as a sculptor-medalist from 1883. He was a member of L'Essor, a realistic artistic circle in Brussels (1876 - 1883), and exhibited for the first time at the Ghent Salon in 1883.

In 1905, he had a house-studio4, rue Washington, 36, in Ixelles built by the architect Ernest Van Humbeeck. This workshop should not be confused with another artist's studio located not far away at 28 and 30 Washington Street, built in 1889 by the architect Henri Van Dievoet as a rental house for the stockbroker Félix Rodberg. This studio was rented by Félix Rodberg to several artists: to the painter Louis Artan de Saint-Martin (1837-1890) around 1893 and to the painter Hippolyte Wulffaert (from 1897 to 1912). Charles Samuel created works in stone, marble and bronze as well as in hardwood. He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists in Paris. He died on January 31, 1938 and was buried on February 6, 1938 at the Dieweg cemetery in Uccle.

Some known works:
- La Fortune (1894), King Baudouin Foundation Collection.
- Monument to Charles De Coster (1894), to the glory of Till the Mischievous and the author of the book The Legend and the heroic, joyful and glorious adventures of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak in the country of Flanders and elsewhere, at the ponds of Ixelles, architect Franz De Vestel. - Monument to Pierre Van Humbeeck (1901 - 1902), corner of rue Antoine Dansaert and rue Rempart-des-Moines in Brussels.
- Statue of Brabançonne (1930), Place Surlet de Chokier in Brussels.
- The Lion in the Botanical Garden of Brussels.