...'Grinling Gibbon. — An original g:nius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together * the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or in England...

...excelled in carving flowers and foliage ; and Walpole has said with justice, " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy li|(htm,ei of (lowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder...

...well-merited eulogium passed upon the principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,...

...sport on the wall, and that some of the birds are still in their death flutter. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. In the great antechamber are several dead fowl over the chimney, finely executed, and, over a closet-door,...

...the walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...productions of the elements, with a free disorder natural to eaoli species.' The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver, and we hopo that the art of wood...

...Grinling Gibbon. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland, or in England...

...their eyes. An inventor is equally a master whether born in Italy or Lapland. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. Vertue had received two different accounts of his birth; from Murray the painter, that he was born...

...the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species.' LVI. The total sum expended on the Cathedral (dismissing from...

...Walpole) before Gibbons had "ever given to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, or linked together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." His cJief d' œuvre of skill was an imitation point-lace cravat, which he carved at Chatsworth for...

...The font of St. James is among his few works in marble. Horace Walpole says : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers." His talent for composition seems not to have equalled his skill in execution. He died in 1721. ANDREAS...