Pieter Valckx

Life

Work

Selected works

Mechelen

• St. Rumbold's Cathedral: Statue of St. Mark and medallions of St. Augustine and St. Norbert, which were originally placed in the Church of Our Lady of Leliendaal, Mechelen.
• St. Catherine Church: The pulpit, which shows Verhaegen’s influence.
• Church of St John the Baptist and Evangelist: The panels carved in relief of the choir stalls, the organ case and the stalls in the western tower are regarded as his finest work, displaying a feeling for naturalistic detail in the tradition of his teacher Verhaegen. In the period 1768-1769 Pieter Valckx incorporated the triptych of the Adoration of the Magi painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1617 into the new main altar. Valckx further executed the altar in the sacrament chapel designed by the painter Willem Jacob Herreyns.
• Our Lady of the Dijle Church: the pulpit and a statue of the Apostle Philip.
• Floats: Pieter Valckx and Willem Jacob Herreyns were commissioned by the Jesuits in Mechelen to design a series of floats on the occasion of the celebrations for the thousandth anniversary of the city's patron saint Rumbold of Mechelen in 1775. They designed the floats together and also designed the triumphal arches. It is not clear whether the floats were effectively used in the celebrations as the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773 and the event was then organized by the rival order of the Oratorians.

  Outside Mechelen

• St. Peter's Church in Meerbeke: The pulpit, representing a Nativity Scene
• St. Amand's Church in Geel: The confessionals
• St. Gertrude Church in Ternat: The Baroque pulpit is a work of Pieter Valckx’ workshop
• St. Germanus Church in Tienen: The pulpit
• St. Catherine Church in Brussels: The pulpit