Sculptor. Born Denmark. Came to England in about 1655 and arrived in London by 1660. Also carved the amazing statues of Melancholy and Raving Madness that used to adorn the entrance gates of Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital (when it was at Moorfields) and can now be seen in a small museum in Kent at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Father of writer Colley Cibber. Died London, buried in the Danish church, Wellclose Square, which he had designed, but that was demolished in 1870.
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Charles II statue - Soho Square
Erected in the King's lifetime - see Fenner Brockway for our list of other su...
The Monument - west and north
The bas relief by Cibber is worthy of close examination. It shows a woman on...
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1 memorial
Paul Raphael Montford
Sculptor. Born in Kentish Town to father Horace. Other works in London: Battersea Town Hall (1892) and the panel on the King Charles Street bridge on Whitehall. Other websites refer to Montford's 1...
8 memorials
Mary Thornycroft
Sculptor. Born Norfolk but in 1823 her family moved to London, 56 Albany Street. Her father, John Francis, was a sculptor and she worked with him as assistant and pupil in Albany Street. In 1840 sh...
2 memorials
William Wagstaff
William Wheatley Wagstaff. Sculptor, architectural sculptor, stone carver, sculpture business and foundry owner. Born Keighley, West Yorkshire. By 1910 he had moved to London. WW1 he was employed ...
2 memorials
2 memorials
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