Born Rotterdam. Wood carver and sculptor. Other works in London: a marble font in St James's Piccadilly, carvings in Whitehall Palace. Lived and died in Bow Street. See Discovering London for some more info. A London Inheritance has a good post on St Mary Abchurch where a fine and rare piece of Gibbons carving can be seen.
Famed for his skill in wood, at least half of his professional output was in stone.
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Grinling Gibbons
Bow Street was formed about 1637. It has been the residence of many notable m...
St Martin within Ludgate King Cadwal built the first church here, just inside...
In the mid 16th century this site was the timber yard for the nearby Whitehal...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Grinling Gibbons
Made in 1633 during Charles I's reign, London’s oldest bronze statue was inte...
Sculpted by Grinling Gibbons or one of his pupils this is considered a very f...
Nothing like a gilded statue on a cloudless day. The statue is of brass and w...
The inscription is quite badly damaged but we found a transcription in a 1776...
Born Chelsea. Died Lambeth. Bolckow's Flickr page shows another McCarthy memorial, to Cardinal Herbert Alfred Vaughan, and asserts that McCarthy had worked for John Francis Bentley at Westminster...
It seems he was a member of the Phrenological Society which makes some sense for a portrait sculptor.
From Mapping Sculpture we learn that Louis Auguste Malempré was born Belgium in about 1820. He had various addresses in London from 1854 on. Died London, probably at19 Lower Philimore Place, a subs...
Sculptor. Other work in London includes the 2001 'Stag' in St James's Square.
Our picture comes from the video of the unveiling of the Gresley statue, on Reeves' website.
John V. Doubleday was born on 9 October 1947 in Langford, Maldon, Essex, the youngest of the three children of Gordon Vincent Doubleday (1914-1993) and Margaret Elsa Verder Doubleday née Harris (19...
Clerk for the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. May be "Jnd.", either way we can't think what it might stand for.
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