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(1) Jacques [Jacob] Verberckt
(b Antwerp, 24 Feb 1704; d Paris, 9 Dec 1771). Sculptor and ornamentalist. He studied in Antwerp with his uncle, Michiel van der Voort I, but left for Paris c. 1716 and by 1727 was working for the Bâtiments du Roi as an ornamental sculptor and virtuoso carver of wooden panelling and picture frames. He gained favour with the Premier Architecte du Roi, Jacques Gabriel V, and his son Ange-Jacques Gabriel and worked on many of the royal châteaux. He was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1733. He collaborated with Jules Degoullons (c. 1671–1737) on decorations at Versailles (e.g. the Chambre de la Reine, 1730; in situ), and for the apartments of the Dauphin and for the Petite Galerie of the king’s apartments (both 1736; in situ). The style of this work, which accorded equal importance to the carving of the border mouldings and to the fields of the panels, later influenced the work of François de Cuvilliés I at the Munich Residenz and of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff at Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. Between 1735 and 1738 Verberckt executed, under Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s supervision, further works in the king’s apartments, subsequently providing decoration for other members of the king’s family, for example carved panelling with trophies representing Earth and Water in the inner closet of the apartment of Mme Adélaïde (1752; in situ). He also worked at the châteaux of Fontainebleau (the king’s bedchamber, 1752), La Muette, Choisy, Bellevue and Saint-Hubert. Among his few surviving free-standing sculptures are the Fontaine de la Douane at Bordeaux (completed 1740; drawing, Paris, Mus. A. Déc.) and two vases in marble (1742–7; one in Paris, Louvre) for the royal gardens at Choisy.
Part of the Verberckt family
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