The Master Carvers Association
The Master Carvers Association
Grinling Gibbons | Master Woodcarver and Sculptor
Description: Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) was the most famous Master woodcarver and sculptor of all time. 2021 marks the tercentenary of his death.
Master Carvers’ Association
Art & Ornament Exhibition NOW OPEN at The Dutch Church, Austin Friars, EC2N 2HA
Date of birth as given in a horoscope cast for him by Elias Ashmole in 1682, now deposited at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is ‘Ap 4 1648’, in Rotterdam. His father, James Gibbens (not Gibbons) an English draper. (Grinling Gibbons and the English Woodcarving Tradition, Frederick Oughton FRSA, 1979).
The Master Carvers Association
The Master Carvers Association
Grinling Gibbons | Master Woodcarver and Sculptor