Also known as John Michael or Johannes Michel or Jan Michiel Rysbrach or Rijsbrack. Born Antwerp (which probably explains the confusion).
Sculptor of busts and funerary monuments of many prominent people, including Isaac Newton, Robert Walpole and the Duke of Marlborough. Died at home in Vere Street, Marylebone in relative poverty due to his generosity to relations and to his passion for collecting prints and drawings.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Michael Rysbrack
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Chelsea Physic Garden was establ...
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Michael Rysbrack
This statue is made of a single piece of marble weighing 11 tons. As was the ...
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
Italian Sculptor. Â Born Catania, Sicily. Â Professor of Sculpture in Naples. Â Died Rome.
Active 1989. Â We have also seen his name as 'Petersen'.
Richard Michael Renshaw was born in May 1950 in Holderness, Yorkshire, the second of the three children of Jack Newlove Renshaw (1920-1987) and Helen Rhead Renshaw née Moser (1917-2005). His birth ...
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