| Henri Boncquet | |
| Birth Date: | 7 April 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Ardooie, Flemish Community, Belgium |
| Death Place: | Ixelles, Belgium |
| Education: | Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels |
| Occupation: | Sculptor |
Henri Boncquet (7 April 1868 – 10 April 1908) was a Belgian sculptor.
Henri Boncquet was born in Ardooie into a large family and was orphaned at the age of seven.[1]
In the immediate vicinity of his birthplace, he began his training in Roeselare in the studio of the sculptor Karel Dupon (1853-1907).[2] The latter was the elder brother of the later sculptor and medallist Josuë Dupon (1864-1935). Subsequently, from 1880 to 1881, Boncquet was enrolled at the local Academy of Arts, the SASK,[3] then moved to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for a few years. He received his first official commission in 1894: the bronze eagle in the botanical garden at the Schaarbeek Gate in Brussels.[4]
In February 1897, Boncquet applied for the Belgian Prix de Rome[5] at the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen, won first prize and went to Rome in 1898. From there, further study trips with a stay in Nuremberg in 1899. Back from Rome, he moved Brussels to the district of Ixelles. In Brussels, he worked figuratively on the town hall of Saint-Gilles[6] on the triumphal arch in the Parc du Cinquantenaire and on three statues in the parks of Ixelles as well as on paintings in the botanical garden.[7] In 1903, his stone sculpture Family with Children was placed in the Malkastenpark in Düsseldorf.
Boncquet died in Ixelles of stomach cancer at the age of 40.