Louis Samain

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

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.


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