He probably worked the land with his father and brothers. He married in Ostend on September 3, 1887 with Marie Joséphine Cornu, from this marriage a daughter was born.
Ernest is a sculptor in Ostend, while his father is in Rosendaël-les-Dunkerque.
From 1890 he had a workshop in Boulogne-sur-Mer and left Belgium definitively in 1892.