Dieussart was likely an active sculptor by the time he arrived in
Rome in his early twenties. He appears in an entry from 1622 at the charitable organisation run at the
Church of St. Julian of the Flemings and had become its director by 1630. He was invited to England by the
Earl of Arundel in 1636, and made a reputation there with the construction of a magnificent mechanical
monstrance forty feet (12.2 metres) high for Queen
Henrietta Maria's chapel at
Somerset House. His bust of
Charles I of England, probably commissioned by Arundel, is at
Arundel Castle, Another portrait bust of Charles I in
Windsor Castle, possibly by
Thomas Adye or
Francis Bird (c. 1737–44) is speculatively thought to be based on a now lost bust by Dieussart. He is mentioned in a poem by
Cornelis de Bie in his book
Het Gulden Cabinet as being court sculptor for the Stuarts in England. A brief biographical sketch for Dieussart was published in the early art dictionary
Teutsche Academie by
Joachim von Sandrart. According to the
RKD he learned his trade in Rome from
François Duquesnoy. == Literature ==