Roubiliac
Britishnoun
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It was probably some years before this that Roubiliac had obtained employment from Mr. Jonathan Tyers, who in 1732 had become the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
To Flaxman, who was certainly a bigot in regard to the beauties of the antique, if Roubiliac was something of a scoffer in that respect, this seemed flat blasphemy.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
His intimate and fellow-sculptor—a painter also—Adrien Charpentier, executed a characteristic portrait of Roubiliac.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
Setting aside the tombs of Roubiliac, which belong to the heroic order of graveyard art, we Scotch stand, to my fancy, highest among nations in the matter of grimly illustrating death.
From Edinburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Roubiliac carved similar parabolic productions in marble and set them up in Westminster Abbey and elsewhere.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
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