Meet Grinling Gibbons: ‘The Michelangelo of Wood’
by Sophia Marci Anderson, 29-03-18
A new exhibition opening at Fairfax House tells the story of how a young man from Rotterdam became an icon of English craftsmanship
It is 1667, one year after the Great Fire of London had ravaged the capital and two years after the outbreak of the plague, the son of an English draper, 19-year-old Grinling Gibbons, left the Netherlands to continue his career as a journeyman craftsman in England. In the following decades he was to change the landscape of British carving.
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