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Sculptors • Architects born active died
1730/38 1770s-1800s 1814, Nov 18
noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become a noted architect himself and had designed and constructed the Chapel of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi in Ouro Preto. He had also executed the carvings on the building, the most notable being a round bas-relief depicting St. Francis receiving the stigmata.
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Aleijadinho 1730/38 1770
1809 1814, Nov 18
Jean-Baptiste Defernex 1729 1754 1772 1783 a French artist best known for his portrait busts, most often of women. Defernex received no offi... Guillaume Coustou the Younger 1716, Mar 19 1735 1777 1777, Jul 13 a French sculptor, the son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou. His most... Laurent Delvaux 1696 1717 1779 1778, Feb 24 a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, ... Joseph Nollekens 1737, Aug 11 1760 1779 1823, Apr 23 a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th ce... Manuel Bal unknown 1770 1779 unknown natural scholar of San Bernardo de Yagüe and neighbor in Campillo, both of this Bishopric of Osm... Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736, Feb 6 1755 1783 1783, Aug 19 a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with face... Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1714, Jan 26 1740 1785 1785, Aug 20 a French sculptor. Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he faile... Patience Wright 1725 1770 1785 1786, Mar 23 the first recognized American-born sculptor. She chiefly created wax figures of people. She loved... Sir Robert Taylor 1714 1740 1788 1788 a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Among his earliest projects was Asgill ... Etienne-Maurice Falconet 1716, Dec 1 1755 1789 1791, Jan 4 counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors. Many of Falconet's religious works, comm... Agostino Carlini 1718 ca 1760 1790 1790, Aug 15 an Italian sculptor and painter, who settled in England and became one of the founding members o... Joseph Wilton 1722, Jul 16 1755 1795 1803, Nov 25 an English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and its thi... John Bacon Sr. 1740, Nov 24 1770 1799 1799, Aug 4 a British sculptor who worked in the late 18th century. Bacon has been reckoned the founder of th... Mikhail Kozlovsky 1753, Nov 6 1774 1802 1802, Sep 30 a Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment. Although his early works ... Pierre Julien 1731, Jun 20 1765 1804 1804, Dec 17 a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles. He worked on the ... Thomas Banks 1735, Dec 29 1774 1805 1805, Feb 2 an important 18th-century English sculptor. Among other works in St Paul's Cathedral are the monu... Joseph Chinard 1756, Feb 12 1784 1808 1813, Jun 20 a French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style that was infused with naturalism and sentime... Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard 1743, Sep 11 1764 1809 1809, Jun 4 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ... Samuel McIntire 1757, Jan 16 1780 1809 1811, Feb 6 an American architect and craftsman, Chestnut Street District, a legacy to one of the earliest ar... Antoine-Denis Chaudet 1763, Mar 3 1784 1810 1810, Apr 18 a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style. He married his pupil, the painter Jeanne-El... Claude Michel 1738, Dec 20 1755 1814 1814, Mar 29 a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in terracotta. Among Clodio... Anne Seymour Damer 1749, Nov 8 1784 1818 1828, May 28 an English sculptor and novelist. During the period 1784–1818, Damer exhibited 32 works as an h... François-Joseph Duret 1729, Nov 12 1740 1819 1816, Aug 7 a French sculptor. Duret was prince of the Academy of St. Luke, a member of the Académie royale ... George M. Miller unknown 1798 1819 1819 a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled" in wax. Among biographical sources there... Joaquim Machado de Castro 1731, Jun 19 1770 1822 1822, Nov 17 one of Portugal's foremost sculptors, and a celebrated figure throughout Europe in the eighteenth... Antonio Canova 1757, Nov 1 1780 1822 1822, Oct 13 an Italian neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greates... John Bacon Jr. 1777 1794 1822 1859 an English sculptor, operational during the early 19th century. From 1818 until 1843, he worked i... Claude Ramey 1754, Oct 29 1782 1828 1838, Jun 4 a French sculptor. Between 1806 and 1810 he was engaged on the bas reliefs on the Vendôme Column... John Flaxman 1755, Jul 6 1767 1829 1826, Dec 7 a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. E... Ivan Petrovich Martos 1754 1779 1829 1835, Apr 5 a Russian sculptor and art teacher of Ukrainian origin who helped awaken Russian interest in Neoc... Pierre Cartellier 1757, Dec 2 1801 1829 1831, Jun 12 a French sculptor. At a time in European history when ancient works were the measure by which all... Landolin Ohmacht 1760, Nov 11 1790 1834 1834, Mar 31 a German sculptor. His principal works are: “The Judgment of Paris,” in the royal garden at M... Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey 1781, Apr 7 1802 1839 1841, Nov 25 an English sculptor. He became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, producing bu... Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770 ca 1781 1844 1844, Mar 24 a Danish sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy. In Rome, Thorvaldse... James Pradier 1790, May 23 1807 1852 1852, Jun 4 a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. The cool neoclass... Sir Richard Westmacott 1775, Jul 15 1797 1856 1856, Sep 1 a British sculptor. Among his works are the reliefs for the north side of Marble Arch, the sculpt... Christian Daniel Rauch 1777, Jan 2 1790 1857 1857, Dec 3 a German sculptor. He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German sculpto... Matthew Cotes Wyatt 1777 1805 1859 1862, Jan 3 a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era... Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain 1710 1750 186 1795 a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the inf... Bartolomeo Cavaceppi 1716 ca 1750 186 1799, Dec 9 an Italian sculptor who worked in Rome. Much of his work was in restoring antique Roman sculpture... Lorenzo Bartolini 1777, Jan 7 1803 192 1850, Jan 20 an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturali...
