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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Caius Gabriel Cibber
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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...
Other Subjects
Michael Clark
Sculptor. Born Cheltenham, eldest son of sculptor Philip Lindsey-Clark. President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1971-76. More information at Mapping Sculpture.
Frank Meisler
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
William Robert Colton
Sculptor. Born Paris but came to England early and made his home in London. The only other public work in London that we know of is the 1897 Mermaid Fountain or Little Nell, in Hyde Park, just nor...
Thomas Rudge
Active in 1921. Probably the same Thomas Rudge at Ornamental Passions.
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