Pierre François Le Roy (1739 - 1812)
• Was a Southern Netherlandish artist known for both his sculptures and paintings.
• Born in Namur.
• He came from a bourgeois family.
• On 7 August 1762, he married Marie Catherine Briot in Namur.
• Their son, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, had a career as a draughtsman, a painter of battles and horses.
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Around 1765 he attended the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris and was chosen as an assistant by Charles-Antoine Brida.
• In 1773, he returned to Namur after passing through Paris.
• Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Governor Charles Alexander of Lorraine acquired several of his works in the 1780s.
• In 1782, he resided intermittently in Namur, having rented a house in Brussels to benefit from more commissions.
• In 1794, he settled permanently in Brussels.
• On 27 June 1812, he died in Brussels at the home of his son.
