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...
Sculptor. Born and died in Paris. Fervent supporter of the Paris Commune. When this was suppressed he escaped to London in July 1871, and only returned to Paris in 1880 when pardoned in the general...
Sculptor. Leonard Stanford Merrifield was born in Gloucestershire. After training he lived in London (and was based in Chelsea for at least some of the time). Speel reviews his work. His statue of ...
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
Sculptor active in 1724 but died by 1726. Mason to the Fishmongers’ Company.
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