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28 May 1675
- The baptism of a baby Grinling Gibbons is recorded in the register of St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street on 28 May 1675 and his burial only three days later.
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Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Employment in York
- Presentation at Court
- Royal Patronage
- St Paul’s Cathedral
- Country House Commissions
In about 1667, Grinling Gibbons came to England and settled in York where he was employed by John Etty, a leading architect and carver. His earliest surviving work is the small boxwood King David Panel, created in York in c.1667-70, showing King David playing a harp with St Cecilia at the organ, surrounded by cherubs and a heavenly consort of music...
Very early in 1671 Gibbons moved from York to the Royal Navy Dockyard town of Deptford in south-east London. Although there was plenty of work here for ships’ carvers, he had set his ambitions somewhat higher. His talent did not go unnoticed for long; he was “discovered” by the diarist John Evelyn whilst carving a relief copy of Tintoretto’s Crucif...
Lely and May found Gibbons the commissions that allowed him to invent his new decorative style. Almost certainly it was Hugh May who secured Gibbons his first major commissions in the mid-1670s and it was May together with Lely who arranged a second presentation to the king, this time at Windsor Castle, at the start of May’s rebuilding (c.1675). On...
When Evelyn had first seen Gibbons at work he was quick to take his friends Samuel Pepys and Christopher Wren to meet the artist, but Wren could not have shared Evelyn’s strongly favourable opinion as he did not employ the woodcarver until around 10 years later when Gibbons’ reputation was already well established. For Wren, he worked on the decora...
During the Restoration, the aristocracy set out to re-establish their authority over the country by embarking on an ambitious rebuilding programme. New country houses were commissioned and old ones either demolished or radically redesigned and extended. The nobility vied with each other to employ the best craftsmen in the creation of lavish interio...
Grinling Gibbons (1648 – 1721) is Britain's most celebrated wood carver, his name synonymous with an evergreen style of decoration that transformed the interiors of many of the nation's greatest palaces, churches and institutions.
The renowned carver and sculptor Grinling Gibbons worked extensively for successive English monarchs, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, being appointed Master Carver to William III in 1693.
Aug 11, 2021 · Gibbons, Grinling. Rotterdam then London; carver (b.1648–d.1721) Arguably the most celebrated woodcarver in history, and sometimes described as ‘the Michelangelo of wood’, Gibbons is credited with introducing realistic carving in limewood to England.
GRINLING GIBBONS 1648 – 1721. Grinling Gibbons was the most celebrated British woodcarver of the 17th century. Born in Rotterdam in 1648, to British parents, Gibbons completed his initial apprenticeship in the Low Countries before emigrating to London in around 1667.
Aug 15, 2022 · 2021 will be the 300th anniversary of the death of Grinling Gibbons. Date of birth as given in a horoscope cast for him by Elias Ashmole in 1682, now deposited at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is ‘Ap 4 1648’, in Rotterdam.
