This beautiful bronze sculpture of a young man training two dogs on a ball is made by the Antwerp sculpture Alphonse van Beurden. He was a pupil of Joseph Geefs and Eduard Dujardin at the Academy of Antwerp. Van Beurden is the designer of the caryatid and allegorical sculptures on the façade of the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
In the United Kingdom Van Beurden is famous for his ivory sculptures. He exhibited thirteen times (1887-1904) in the Royal Academy of Art with sixteen images in ivory and marble.
Alphonse van Beurden était un sculpteur belge, né à Anvers le 23 avril 1854. Il mourut le 21 septembre 1938. Il étudia avec Joseph Geefs et Eduard Dujardin à l'académie d'art d'Anvers. Van Beurden conçut les sculptures cariatides et allégoriques sur la façade de le Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Anvers. Au Royaume-Uni, il est réputé pour ses sculptures en ivoire. Entre 1887 et 1904, il expose treize fois à la Royal Academy of Art.
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