VAN DER KERCKHOVE, Paul Armand Joseph

1876 - 1950  (73 years)

• Name	VAN DER KERCKHOVE, Paul Armand Joseph
  Birth	23 Oct 1876	Saint Josse ten Norde   [1]
  	Place of birth from daughters birth certificate
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Mar 1950	Rhodes-Saint-Genèse, Bruxelles, Belgium
  	Cutting from Le Soir, Brussels - March 1950 Mort du statuaire Paul Van de Kerckhove Le mardi 7 mars, le sculpteur Paul Van de Kerckhove est mort à Rhodes-Saint-Genèse. Cet excellent statuaire, à qui l'on doit bon nombre d'œvres monumentales, était né en 1876. Il fut l'élève de Mignon et était le dernier artiste d'une famille de sculpteurs et de peintres. Paul Van de Kerckhove a sculpté notamment le monument à la gloire de Philippe Baucq, le groupe surmontant le portique de Notre-Dame du bon Secours et la statue équestre de Lady Godiva exposée à la Royal Academy, de Londres et achetée par la ville de Coventry. Il était également l'auteur d'une remarquable série de bustes où s'affiremait un talent d'une rare probité. Église Notre-Dame du Bon Secours de Bruxelles, Rue du Marché au Charbon Kolenmarkt 91, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
  Person ID	I128	Culbertson Genealogy
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	VAN DER KERCKHOVE, NK
  Mother	NK, Mother of Alice, Paul
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	VAN DEN BERGHE, Marie Louise,   b. 20 Feb 1876, Harcourt Terrace, West Brompton, London d. 10 Sep 1968, Valkenswaard, NL (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	1 Jul 1900
  Notes	Broadwater Court, Tunbridge Wells, Kent Violinist Eugene Ysaye and sculptor Paul van den Kerckhove and their families both stayed for a short time at Broadwater Court on Broadwater Down, at the time, the country house of the Van Den Bergh family. Henry Van Den Bergh was born in 1851 in Maasdonk, The Netherlands, of Jewish origin.  His family were butter wholesalers; in 1870, he moved to London to carry on the business, which by now also sold margarine.    Henry married Henrietta (nee Spanjaard) in 1887, when he was 35 and she was just 19.   Their London home was at 8 Kensington Palace Gardens, in an area once known as ‘Billionaire’s Row’. The registration forms show that Paul van den Kerckhove, Louise and their two daughters arrived in England around September 2014 seeking temporary accommodation.  They moved from a London Hotel to Broadwater Court in March 1915.  By September 2015, Paul’s sculpture of Mayor Emson had been presented.  By January 2016 the family lived in Garden Road Tunbridge Wells.  However, Louise and the girls then relocated to Blackpool, without Paul, whilst he moved to hotels first in London, then Teddington. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/rtwbelgians/2017/06/01/who-lived-at-broadwater-court-during-the-first-world-war/#
  Children	1. VAN DER KERCKHOVE, Simonne Berthe Angélique,   b. 17 Jan 1902, Saint-Joss-ten-Noode, Brussells, Belgium d. 2 Jun 1992, Heath Mount Nursing Home, Rake, Hampshire (Age 90 years)   2. VAN DER KERCKHOVE, Danielle Marie Alice,   b. 19 Jan 1907, Saint-Joss-ten-Noode, Brussells, Belgium d. 11 Aug 1999, East Hill House Nursing Home, Rake, Hampshire (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F51	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2021

  
  

• Documents		17 January 1902 Birth Certificate for Simonne Berthe Angélique van der KERCKHOVE born in Brussels, Belgium Daughter of Paul Armand van der KERCKHOVE & Marie Louise (née van den BERGHE)
  		1914 Register of Belgian Refugees — Certificate of Registration This is to certify that Paul Armand Joseph Vande Kerckhove and two daughters Danielle & Simonne of 41 Avenue des Campanules, Boitsfort, Bruxelles at present residing at 40 Garden Road has been registered in the Police District of Tunbridge Wells.

  
  

• Notes

  RSS feed re Paul Vande Kerckhove at https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/rtwbelgians/2017/07/21/paul-vd-kerckhove-and-the-bust-of-mayor-whitbourn-emson-by-alison-mackenzie/feed/?withoutcomments=1 In 1915 the Belgian Community of Tunbridge Wells commissioned Belgian sculptor Paul Vd Kerckhove, himself a refugee, to make a bust of the town’s Mayor and Chairman of the Borough Belgian Refugees’ Committee, Cllr Charles Whitbourn Emson.  The sculptor undertook the work free of charge, and local artist, Alexander Kirk, made his studio on Cumberland Walk available to him.  According to the Courier newspaper of 23rd July 1915, while in Tunbridge Wells M. Vd Kerckhove took the opportunity to mould a number of busts of local people. Paul Vd Kerckhove (1876-??), from Boitsfort near Brussels, was a well-known Belgian artist, from a family of well-known artists.  After consulting Census records in Brussels, I believe he was the son of sculptor J. Antoine Van De Kerckhove “dit NELSON” (c1849-?) but I have yet to prove it… A member of the Civic Guard in Brussels, he had been forced to flee in September 1914.  At some point his wife and their two daughters joined him, and they were all together in Tunbridge Wells from February 1915, first at Broadwater Court, then at 8 Monson Road, and finally at 40 Garden Road. Once the Bust was finished, the family returned to London where Paul stayed while his wife and daughter went north to Blackpool.  He lived for a while with foundry owner Ercole Parlanti and is known to have exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1917 and 1918, one of his subjects being Parlanti’s daughter Olga. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/rtwbelgians/2017/07/21/paul-vd-kerckhove-and-the-bust-of-mayor-whitbourn-emson-by-alison-mackenzie/ Statue by P Vande Kerckhove Statue of André Dumont in Place de l'Université, Louvain, Belgium by Paul vande Kerckhove Leuven-Andre-Dumont-01-638x850

  
  

• Sources

  [S341] Birth - 1902-01-17 - Simonne BA vanderKerckhove, 29 Sep 1926 (Reliability: 3).