Grinling Gibbons

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Grinling Gibbons.

Detail of ornamentation from the interior of Petworth House, Sussex, Eng., designed by Grinling Gibbons, c.1690

Choir stalls of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, by Grinling Gibbons, 1696–98.

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British sculptor

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Grinling Gibbons.

Grinling Gibbons.

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (accession no. B1978.43.269)

Detail of ornamentation from the interior of Petworth House, Sussex, Eng., designed by Grinling Gibbons, c.1690

Detail of ornamentation from the interior of Petworth House, Sussex, Eng., designed...

Courtesy of the National Trust, at Petworth House

Choir stalls of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, by Grinling Gibbons, 1696–98.

Choir stalls of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, by Grinling Gibbons, 1696–98.

A.F. Kersting

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