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See also:BANKS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1735-1805) , See also:English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was See also:land steward to the See also:duke of See also:Beaufort, was See also:born in See also:London on the 29th of See also:December 1735. He was taught See also:drawing by his See also:father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a See also:wood-See also:carver. In his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he worked at See also:sculpture, and before 1772, when he obtained a travelling studentship and proceeded to See also:Rome, he had already exhibited several See also:fine See also:works. Returning to See also:England in 1779 he found that the See also:taste for classic See also:poetry, ever the source of his See also:inspiration, no longer existed, and he spent two years in St See also:Petersburg, being employed by the empress See also:Catherine, who See also:purchased his " See also:Cupid tormenting a Butterfly." On his return he modelled his See also:colossal " See also:Achilles See also:mourning the loss of Briseis," a See also:work full of force and See also:passion; and thereupon he was elected, in 1784, an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy and in the following See also:year a full member. Among other works in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral are the monuments to See also:Captain See also:Westcott and Captain See also:Burges, and in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey to See also:Sir See also:Eyre See also:Coote. His bust of See also:Warren See also:Hastings is in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery. Banks's best-known work is perhaps the colossal See also:group of " See also:Shakespeare attended by See also:Painting and Poetry," now in the See also:garden of New See also:Place, See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon. He died in London on the and of See also:February 18o5.
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