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1754 1779-1820s 1835, Apr 5
a Russian sculptor and art teacher of Ukrainian origin who helped awaken Russian interest in Neoclassical sculpture. Enjoying the patronage of the Russian royalty, Martos held a professorship at the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1779 and became its dean in 1814. His main claim to fame is the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square, conceived in 1804 but not inaugurated until 1818. Owing to the many years he spent on this one work, Martos did not produce much other sculpture in the period. He died at St Petersburg.
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Ivan Petrovich Martos 1754 1779
1829 1835, Apr 5
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, ... Aleijadinho 1730/38 1770 1809 1814, Nov 18 noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become ... 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... 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... Boris Orlovsky 1796, Oct 11 1820 1837 1837, Dec 28 a Russian Neoclassical sculptor. Orlovsky's statues of Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly in front of t... 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... Hezekiah Augur 1791 1820 1839 1858 an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19t... 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... Musgrave Watson 1804 1828 1847 1847 an English sculptor of the early 19th century. A stone frieze for Moxhay's Commercial Hall in Thr... John Ternouth 1796, Jan 30 1819 1848 1848, Jul 1 an English sculptor of the early 19th century. His most notable work is one of the four panels at... Richard James Wyatt 1795, Jun 1818 1850 1850, May a sculptor, the grandson of the architect James Wyatt. He was a man of classical tastes, and pro... John Frazee 1790, Jul 18 1820 1850 1852, Feb 24 an American sculptor and architect. The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as... William Mossman 1793, Aug 18 1823 1851 1851, Jun 23 a Scottish sculptor operational in the early 19th century, and father to three sculptor sons (Joh... 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... Jean-Etienne Ramey 1796, May 24 1815 1852 1852, Oct 29 a French sculptor. Ramey was born in Paris. The pupil of his father, Claude Ramey (1754–1838), ... Horatio Greenough 1805, Sep 6 1817 1852 1852, Dec 18 an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue (1837–5... George Rennie 1801/02 1820 1855 1860, Mar 22 a Scottish sculptor and politician. He entered politics to support the arts in Britain and helped... 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... Istvan Ferenczy 1792, Feb 24 1819 1856 1856, Jul 4 a nineteenth-century Hungarian sculptor. It was Ferenczy who discovered marble in Ruszicka. Trave... Joseph Bonomi the Younger 1796, Oct 9 1824 1856 1878, mar 3 an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator. From 1824 to 1826, he was a member ... 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... John Edward Carew 1785 ca 1809 1858 1868, Dec 1 a notable Irish sculptor during the 19th century. His most prominent work is the Death of Nelson ... 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... Herman Wilhelm Bissen 1798, Oct 13 1823 1862 1868, Mar 10 a Danish sculptor. Bissen first studied painting in Copenhagen, then became a pupil of the sculpt... John Gibson 1790, Jun 19 1817 1866 1866, Jan 27 a Welsh Neoclassical sculptor who studied in Rome, excelled chiefly in bas-relief, notably the tw... Antoine-Louis Barye 1796, Sep 24 1810 1869 1875, Jun 25 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ... Honore Daumier 1808, Feb 26 1822 1873 1879, Feb 10 a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on so... Hiram Powers 1805, Jul 29 1822 1873 1873, Jun 27 an American neoclassical sculptor. In 1837 he moved to Italy and settled on the Via Fornace in Fl... Henry Weekes 1807, Jan 14 1826 1876 1877, May/Jun 28 an English sculptor, best known for his portraiture. He was among the most successful British scu... William F. Woodington 1806, Feb 10 1825 1879 1893, Dec 24 a notable English painter and sculptor of the 19th century. He exhibited at the Royal Academy fro... Treffle Berthlaume 1803, Jun 13 1818 1889 1884, Oct 22 a Canadian sculptor. Perhaps best remembered for his contribution towards church carvings, Berthl... 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... David d'Angers 1788, Mar 12 1809 192 1856, Jan 4 a French sculptor and medallist. David's fame rests firmly on his pediment of the Pantheon, his m...
