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See also:GIBBONS, GRINLING (1648-1721) , See also:English See also:wood-See also:carver, was See also:born in 1648, according to some authorities of Dutch parents at See also:Rotterdam, and according to others of English parents at See also:London. By the former he is said to have come to London after the See also:great See also:fire in 1666. He See also:early displayed great cleverness and ingenuity in his See also:art, on the strength of which he was recommended by See also:Evelyn to See also:Charles II., who employed him in the See also:execution both of statuary and of ornamental See also:carving in wood. In the early See also:part of the 18th See also:century he worked for See also:Sir See also:Christopher See also:Wren. In statuary one of his See also:principal See also:works is a See also:life-See also:size See also:bronze statue in the See also:court of See also:Whitehall, representing See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II. in the See also:dress of a See also:Roman See also:emperor, and he also designed the See also:base of the statue of Charles I. at Charing See also:Cross. It is, however, chiefly as a sculptor in wood that he is famous. He was employed to execute the ornamental carving for the See also:chapel at See also:Windsor, the foliage and festoons in the See also:choir of St See also:Paul's, the baptismal fonts in St James's, and an immense quantity of ornamental See also:work at Burleigh, See also:Chatsworth, and other aristocratic mansions. The finest of all his productions in this See also:style is believed to be the See also:ceiling which he devised for a See also:room at Petworth. His subjects are chiefly birds, See also:flowers, foliage, See also:fruit and See also:lace, and many of his works, for delicacy and elaboration of details, and truthfulness of See also:imitation, have never been surpassed. He, however, some-times wasted his ingenuity on trifling subjects; many of his flowers used to move on their stems like their natural prototypes when shaken by a See also:breeze. In 1714 Gibbons was appointed See also:master carver in wood to See also:George I. He died at London on the 3rd of See also:August 1721.
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