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a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the court. Delvaux was a transitional figure between the Baroque and Neo-classicism.
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Laurent Delvaux16961717
 
1778, Feb 241778, Feb 24

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach1656, Jul 201671
 
17231723, Apr 5
 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl...
Giovanni Battista Foggini1652, Apr 251676
 
17251725, Apr 12
 an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary. In Florence, h...
John Van Nostunknown1680
 
17291729
 a Flemish sculptor who worked in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was prolif...
Peter Van Dievoet1661, Jun1680
 
17291729, Mar 2
 a Belgian sculptor and designer of ornamental architectural features. In 1695 he was master of th...
Pablo Gonzalez Velazquez16641690
 
17291727
 a Spanish Baroque sculptor. According to the art historian Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, who is ...
Nicolas Coustou1658, Jan 91681
 
17331733, May 1
 a French sculptor and academic. He was remarkable for his facility. Influenced by Michelangelo an...
Egid Quirin Asam1692, Aug1716
 
17341750, Apr 29
 a German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque. Born in Tegernsee, ...
Juan Ramírez Mejandre1680, Mar 231710
 
17391739, Jul 15
 a Spanish Baroque sculptor, the father of the sculptors Manuel Ramirez de Arellano and José RamÃ...
Guillaume Coustou the Elder1677, Nov 291704
 
17451746, Feb 22
 a French sculptor and academician and the younger brother of French sculptor Nicolas Coustou. Lik...
Giuseppe Grisoni1699, Oct 241715
 
17691769
 an Italian painter and sculptor, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux. Born in Mons, ...
Martin Desjardins16371650
 
1771694, May 2
 a French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth. In 1671 he was received as a member of the Acadé...
Sir Henry Cheere17031720
 
 
17701781, Jan 15
 a renowned English sculptor and monumental mason of the eighteenth century, and older brother of ...
John Cheere17091739
 
 
17701787
 an English sculptor, born in London. Brother of the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere, he was originally ...
Jose Ramirez de Arellano17051740
 
 
17701770, Mar 27
 a Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Juan Ramírez Mejandre, ...
Jean-Baptiste Defernex17291754
 
 
17721783
 a French artist best known for his portrait busts, most often of women. Defernex received no offi...
Guillaume Coustou the Younger1716, Mar 191735
 
 
17771777, Jul 13
 a French sculptor, the son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou. His most...
Joseph Nollekens1737, Aug 111760
 
17791823, Apr 23
 a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th ce...
Manuel Balunknown1770
 
1779unknown
 natural scholar of San Bernardo de Yagüe and neighbor in Campillo, both of this Bishopric of Osm...
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt1736, Feb 61755
 
17831783, Aug 19
 a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with face...
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle1714, Jan 261740
 
17851785, Aug 20
 a French sculptor. Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he faile...
Patience Wright17251770
 
17851786, Mar 23
 the first recognized American-born sculptor. She chiefly created wax figures of people. She loved...
Sir Robert Taylor17141740
 
17881788
 a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Among his earliest projects was Asgill ...
Etienne-Maurice Falconet1716, Dec 11755
 
17891791, Jan 4
 counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors. Many of Falconet's religious works, comm...
Agostino Carlini1718 ca1760
 
17901790, Aug 15
 an Italian sculptor and painter, who settled in England and became one of the founding members o...
Joseph Wilton1722, Jul 161755
 
17951803, 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 241770
 
17991799, Aug 4
 a British sculptor who worked in the late 18th century. Bacon has been reckoned the founder of th...
Mikhail Kozlovsky1753, Nov 61774
 
18021802, Sep 30
 a Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment. Although his early works ...
Pierre Julien1731, Jun 201765
 
18041804, Dec 17
 a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles. He worked on the ...
Thomas Banks1735, Dec 291774
 
18051805, Feb 2
 an important 18th-century English sculptor. Among other works in St Paul's Cathedral are the monu...
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard1743, Sep 111764
 
18091809, Jun 4
 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ...
Aleijadinho1730/381770
 
18091814, Nov 18
 noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become ...
Claude Michel1738, Dec 201755
 
18141814, Mar 29
 a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in terracotta. Among Clodio...
François-Joseph Duret1729, Nov 121740
 
18191816, Aug 7
 a French sculptor. Duret was prince of the Academy of St. Luke, a member of the Académie royale ...
Joaquim Machado de Castro1731, Jun 191770
 
18221822, Nov 17
 one of Portugal's foremost sculptors, and a celebrated figure throughout Europe in the eighteenth...
John Flaxman1755, Jul 61767
 
18291826, Dec 7
 a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. E...
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain17101750
 
1861795
 a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the inf...
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi1716 ca1750
 
1861799, Dec 9
 an Italian sculptor who worked in Rome. Much of his work was in restoring antique Roman sculpture...
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