Louis Samain

Louis Samain (July 4, 1834 – October 24, 1901) was a Belgian sculptor. Samain was born in Nivelles, and studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under Louis Simonis. After winning the Belgian Prix de Rome, he lived for a time in Italy. In 1889, he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle, and in 1895 his work was shown at the Société des Artistes Français in Paris. He died in Ixelles.

Nègres marrons surpris par des chiens (1893), a sculpture in Brussels by Louis Samain, inspired by a scene in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

Selected works

• Architecture, on the facade of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• Earth and Water, at les Halles centrales (destroyed in 1956)
• Italian Arts and Spanish Arts, in the garden of the Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Jean van Ruysbroeck
• Monument to Work, formerly on the old Gare de Bruxelles-Midi
• Nègres marrons surpris par des chiens (also known as Esclave repris par les chiens)
• Thémis, on the Palais de Justice in Dinant
• Tinctoris in Nivelles

References

• Obituary
• Oxford Index
• Public sculptures in Belgium (French)
• Samain's works in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium