Charles GEERTS (1807-1855) Head of a young boy. White marble bust. Signed "Ch Geerts fecit 1840". H. 39 cm - black Belgian marble pedestal H. 12 cm. Accident to the pedestal. Charles Geerts was an Antwerp-born sculptor, who taught sculpture at the Louvain Academy throughout his life, and enjoyed a long and successful career, fulfilling numerous public commissions. In a neo-Gothic or neo-Renaissance style, he sculpted in marble, stone or wood for religious buildings in Antwerp and Brussels, and civil buildings in Bruges and Leuven.