{{Short description|Belgian sculptor (1834–1901)}} {{No footnotes|date=April 2023}} [[File:Wikibruz23.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''Nègres marrons surpris par des chiens'' (1893), a sculpture in Brussels by Louis Samain, inspired by a scene in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'']]
'''Louis Samain''' (July 4, 1834 – October 24, 1901) was a Belgian sculptor. Samain was born in Nivelles, and studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under Louis Simonis. After winning the Belgian Prix de Rome, he lived for a time in Italy. In 1889, he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle, and in 1895 his work was shown at the Société des Artistes Français in Paris. He died in Ixelles.
== Selected works == * ''Architecture'', on the facade of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium * ''Earth'' and ''Water'', at les Halles centrales (destroyed in 1956) * ''Italian Arts'' and ''Spanish Arts'', in the garden of the Musée des Beaux-Arts * ''Jean van Ruysbroeck'' * ''Monument to Work'', formerly on the old Gare de Bruxelles-Midi * ''Nègres marrons surpris par des chiens'' (also known as ''Esclave repris par les chiens'') * ''Thémis'', on the Palais de Justice in Dinant * ''Tinctoris'' in Nivelles
== References == * [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Jdzjxbl-dkC&dq=Louis+Samain&pg=PA342 Obituary] * [http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00159943?rskey=NPN3YW&result=5 Oxford Index] * [http://www.sculpturepublique.be/artistes.htm#samain Public sculptures in Belgium] (French) * [https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/artist/samain-louis-1?letter=s Samain's works] in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Samain, Louis}} Category:Belgian male sculptors Category:19th-century Belgian sculptors Category:1834 births Category:1901 deaths