Alfons van Beurden

A student of Joseph Geefs at the Antwerp Academy from 1868 to 1882, Alfons van Beurden became a member of the traditionalist group of sculptors known as 'Al Ik Kan'. His career was focused on his native city of Antwerp, where he regularly exhibited and from whose institutions he received numerous sculptural commissions for public buildings. Van Beurden became particularly renowned for his statues of children, often with sentimental or anecdotal subjects.