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Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720) - Godrey Kneller (1646-1723) - 1805
GKI128401
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Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720)

ArtistGodrey Kneller (1646-1723)
EngraverThomas Chambars (1724-1789)
Date1805
TechniqueEtching
CategoryPortraits
SourceA Dictionary of Painters From the Revival of the Art to the Present Period by the Rev. M.Pilkington A.M., a New Edition, With Considerable Alterations, Additions, an Appendix and an Index by Henry Fuseli R.A. - London. Printed by John Crowder, Warwick Square

Description

Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720) is considered the greatest woodcarver of the English Baroque style. His extraordinary naturalistic carvings for St. Paul’s Cathedral and Hampton Court are regarded as the pinnacle of English decorative art.