Grinling Gibbons

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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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Born	April 4, 1648 • Rotterdam • Netherlands
Died	August 3, 1721 (aged 73) • London • England

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Henry Moore

British artist

Barbara Hepworth

British sculptor

William Zorach

American sculptor

Carl Milles

Swedish sculptor

Veit Stoss

German sculptor

John Bernard Flannagan

American sculptor

Etching of a design for a counterpane by Pineau, c. 1740

Nicolas Pineau

French sculptor and interior designer

Sir Jacob Epstein

British sculptor

Eric Gill

British artist and printer

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Nicholas Stone, Sr.

English sculptor

Frank Dobson

British sculptor

Sir Anthony Caro

British sculptor

Edward Godwin

British architect and writer

Henry Holland

British architect

Thomas Hope

English author and furniture designer

Reg Butler

English sculptor

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Sir Thomas Brock

British sculptor

Donatello

Italian sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

Romanian-French sculptor

Martin Puryear

American sculptor

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