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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rysbrack (John) Michael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rysbrack, (John) Michael (1694-1770), Flemish-born sculptor who spent virtually the whole of his career in England.
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		Landy, John Michael (1930- ), Australian middle-distance runner and close rival to Roger Bannister.
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	John Michael Rysbrack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack (born June 27, 1694 in Antwerp; died January 8, 1770 in London) was a 18th century Flemish sculptor.
		His birthyear is sometimes (wrongly) given as 1693 or 1684.
		He was the brother of Pieter Andreas Rysbrack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Michael_Rysbrack (113 words)

	Historical Glossary (d-h) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		De Sequeyra, Dr. John (1712-1795), Williamsburg physician, was born in London of distinguished Portuguese-Jewish parentage.
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		His association with publisher John Newbery opened the door to a lasting friendship with Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Goldsmith became an important figure in the London literary scene.
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	TRAVELLERS' JOYS
		This was largely inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (another Lake District resident) whose idealistic principles for simpler living and traditional ways of working were expressed discreetly yet triumphantly at Blackwell.
		It was the creation of John and Mable Ringling and followed their building in the 1920s of an extraordinary house overlooking a white sand beach so typical of the Gulf of Mexico.
		He was essentially self-taught but had the wisdom to rely heavily on the advice of the art dealer Julius Bohler in the course of collecting, on a very large scale in the late 1920s and thus long before they became fashionable, European paintings in the Baroque style current from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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	ALTHORP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also by Rysbrack, a bust of Earl Godolphin commissioned by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, which was rescued from the fire at Wimbledon Park in 1785 - although its companion, a bust of the Duke of Marlborough, did not survive.
		Rysbrack, many of whose works are in Westminster Abbey, was described by Horace Walpole, a frequent visitor, as 'the greatest master seen in these islands since Le Sueur' - a judgement history has confirmed.
		A sculpture of The Innocent being carried to Heaven by Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), representing one of the Innocents slain by King Herod, was commissioned by Lord Spencer in Rome in 1764, and is believed to have been displayed in the Painted Room at Spencer House.
	www.althorp.com /house-grounds/painters-passage.asp (439 words)

	John Michael Rysbrack: John Barnard (1976.330) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Flemish-born Rysbrack was a dominant force in developing the psychologically penetrating portraiture of Augustan England.
		William Barnard was consecrated bishop of Raphoe in Northern Ireland in 1744, succeeded to the bishopric of Derry in 1746–47, and died in 1768.
		Conceivably Rysbrack was asked to perpetuate the memory of a beloved child who died at about the age of eight.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/09/euwb/hod_1976.330.htm (208 words)

	English Art in the 18th Century
		Pieter Scheemaker (1691-1770) of Antwerp and Laurent Delvaux of Ghent carved a number of tombs in Westminster abbey, but it was not until John Michael Rysbrack from Antwerp settled in England in c.
		The busts and tombs of Rysbrack and Roubiliac have a power and vitality previously unknown in English sculpture; they were responsible for the revival that took place in the 18
		The elder John Bacon (1740-1799) executed the Chatham monument in Westminster abbey and that of Dr Johnson in St Paul's.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /tours/english/18_cent.html (2102 words)

	History
		Michael and All Angels is the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley.
		Lady Foley died in December 1735, before the church was opened for worship, but had already commissioned the huge monument to her late husband which stands in the south transept.
		The communion rails are of wrought brass and ironwork and the three sanctuary lamps were a gift from Lady Dudley after the safe return of her husband and his brothers from the Boer War.
	www.greatwitleychurch.org.uk /the.htm (1084 words)

	Rysbrack, John Michael -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rysbrack studied at Antwerp, probably in the workshop of Michael van de Voort.
		Their styles were based on contemporary Netherlandish sculpture with small admixtures of Italian influence; and after 1660 the uncomprehending borrowings of John Bushnell from Bernini serve...
		younger son of King John VI of Portugal, regent of Portugal from February 1828 and self-proclaimed king from July 1828 to 1834, though his royal title was not everywhere recognized.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064565?tocId=9064565 (715 words)

	History of BRITISH ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Later in the century a second John Bettes, son of the first, also paints in the new style.
		They glow in his canvases, handsome and arrogant Cavaliers in fine fabrics (John and Bernard Stuart in London's National Gallery are a perfect example).
		John Michael Rysbrack, who arrives in about 1720, succeeds in this field with his tribute of 1731 to Isaac Newton, mourned by two plump cherubs as he reclines at ease in a Roman toga, resting an elbow on four of his great folio volumes.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad13 (1546 words)

	Frankenheimer, John Michael -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(or Michael, or Mihai) (born 1921), king of Romania, born in Sinaia, Romania; in 1927 succeeded his grandfather, Ferdinand I, his father, Carol II, having given up his rights to the throne; regency during reign, which lasted until father's return to throne in 1930; again king 1940 when his father abdicated; abdicated 1947.
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	English art
		Landscape painting reached its high point in the 19th century with John Constable and J M W Turner.
		There are few English painters of the period to put beside Lely, except John Riley (1646–91), James Thornhill (1676–1734), who worked at Greenwich and Blenheim Palace, and Robert Streater (1624–80), whose mural paintings were notable in an age of portraiture.
		The Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack carved portraits and monuments, and Grinling Gibbons, a Dutch sculptor, decorated many interiors with woodcarvings, such as panels for St Paul’s Cathedral.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0028010.html (1664 words)

	Althorp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Directly above the mantelpiece is the Honourable John Spencer, grandson and heir of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by George Knapton, surveyor of pictures to George III.
		On the ground floor are ranged portraits of Queen Anne and her husband, George of Denmark, and courtiers and statesmen by various English and continental masters, including Sir Godfrey Kneller, Wissing and Jean-Baptiste Van Loo.
		John Spencer (1708-1746) with his son John mounted on horseback, later to become the First Earl Spencer (1743-1783).
	historichouses.simshost.com /althorp/Althorp.htm (3223 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - Nicholas Rowe
		Nicholas Rowe, Poet Laureate and dramatist, was the only son of John Rowe of Lamerton in Devon and Elizabeth, daughter of Jasper Edwards.
		A marble monument, by the sculptor John Michael Rysbrack, was erected by his widow near the grave in 1742, a few feet from Shakespeare’s memorial.
		In the 1930s a 13th century painting was discovered on the wall behind Rowe’s monument, and another behind the adjoining memorial to John Gay, and both memorials were removed to the south triforium of the Abbey.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/rowe.htm (452 words)

	St Michael and All Angels, Great Witley, Worcestershire
		Five miles to the west of Ombersley, in the village of Great Witley is one of Britain's finest Baroque Churches completed in 1735, which displays a splendour unique amongst country churches with exquisite gilded decorations and numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows and a large monument by Rysbrack.
		Adjoining the Church is the ruins of Witley Court owned by English Heritage who together with the Jerwood Foundation, have created a sculpture park in the gardens famous for their magnificent fountains.
		Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley, is located off the A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, about 10 miles north-west of Worcester.
	www.westgallerychurches.com /Worcs/Gt_Witley/Great_Witley.html (1432 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Mr. William Wollaston
		Engraving after a portrait sculpture by Michael Rysbrack of the English religious philosopher William Wollaston (1659-1724).
		Viewers were reminded of philosophical and scientific links between Boyle, Newton, and Locke, and of their support for the tenets of the liberal latitudinarian Anglicanism thought represented by the inclusion of images of Clarke and Wollaston." William Wollaston was the grandfather of the famous English scientist William Hyde Wollaston.
		John Faber was an English engraver who studied mezzotint engraving under his father and became an engraver of portraits.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/portraits/wollaston.html (366 words)

	John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
		John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
		John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
	wwar.com /masters/v/vanderbank-john.html (404 words)

	St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh - Founded by the Saint in 445 A.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The figure was carved by the 18th century Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack.
		Under the third bay is the recumbent effigy of Archbishop Marcus Gervais Beresford (1862-1885) by John Taylor.
		Between the third and fourth windows is the kneeling figure of Archbishop William Stuart (1800-1822) by Sir Francis Chantrey.
	www.stpatricks-cathedral.org /northaisle.htm (327 words)

	Virtual tour of 10 Downing Street - The small dining room
		This room is also used to display examples of outstanding modern British workmanship from the Silver Trust Collection, including a pair of candlesticks decorated with the Lion and the Unicorn.
		The Small Dining Room contains a bust of the British scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton by John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), which was probably based on a death mask taken by Rysbrack.
		Rysbrack, originally from Antwerp, made several version of this bust.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page3028.asp (302 words)

	NPG 1802; John Michael Rysbrack
		The second son of Peeter Rysbrack, a landscape painter and etcher from Antwerp, John Michael Rysbrack studied under Van der Voort and came to England as a sculptor in 1720.
		He was employed by James Gibbs, the architect, with whom he continued to collaborate after he had established a reputation of his own.
		In a working life spanning some fifty years, Rysbrack's considerable output included busts of sitters such as Gibbs, Alexander Pope and George II, statues from history as well as life, decorative sculpture, monuments and restoration of antiques.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw05558 (169 words)

	Monument to Sir John Dutton by RYSBRACK, John Michael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The developing English school of sculpture received a fillip in the second and third quarters of the eighteenth century with several influential artists from abroad, some of whom came for a short time while others stayed virtually for life.
		Two two most outstanding of these were Michael Rysbrack and François Roubiliac (1702-1762).
		Rysbrack came to England in his mid-twenties in about 1720, and by the next decade established his position as a leading sculptor - especially for portrait busts and monuments for which he was well patronized.
	www.wga.hu /html/r/rysbrack/dutton.html (111 words)

	Article
		Painters such as Antonio Canaletto, Joshua Reynolds, and the more pedestrian John Wootton, Thomas Hudson, and Joseph High-more, as well as sculptors like John Michael Rysbrack received commissions to produce works for his family.
		Two stood in the garret room probably occupied by the butler, William Marshman, and under butler, Thomas Fuller; one in the garret room of Silas Blandford, whose post was equivalent of land steward; one in the cook's bedchamber, occupied successively by Thomas Towne, John Cooke, William Sparrow, and Mrs.
		Wilson, a local woman; one in coachman Thomas Gale's room; one in groom Samuel King's room; and a small one with green and white cotton curtains in the room of gardener James Simpson and his successor James Wilson (son of the last cook).
	www.chipstone.org /publications/1993/Hood93/article.html (5441 words)

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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Rysbrack: (2) Michael Rysbrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sculptor and draughtsman, brother of (1) Pieter Andreas Rysbrack.
		His skill as a modeller and marble carver and his lively and eclectic style made him the foremost monumental, architectural and portrait sculptor in England in the 1720s and 1730s.
		The success of his younger rivals Louis-François Roubiliac and Peter Scheemakers (ii) caused a decrease in the number of Michael Rysbrack’s commissions in the early 1740s, but he retained the loyalty of influential long-term patrons and continued to produce work of high quality.
	www.artnet.com /library/07/0747/T074785.asp (244 words)

	Isaac Newton's Gravity - How a major new exhibition gets the scientist wrong. By James Gleick
		These notebooks and loose pages, amounting to 3 million unread words, were to be sold at auction in hundreds of individual lots.
		John Maynard Keynes, horrified by this sacrilege, was able to buy some lots immediately and gather others later; the rest were scattered around the world.
		None of this work led anywhere, as far as modern science is concerned, and none of it is reflected in the exhibit.
	slate.com /id/2108438 (1358 words)

	The Robert Boyle website
		Hunter, Michael, 'The conscience of Robert Boyle: functionalism, "dysfunctionalism" and the task of historical understanding', in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, eds.
		Hunter, Michael, 'Robert Boyle and the dilemma of biography in the age of the scientific revolution', in Telling Lives in Science: Studies in Scientific Biography, eds.
		Milton, John, 'The influence of the nominalist movement on the thought of Bacon, Boyle and Locke', University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1982
	www.bbk.ac.uk /boyle/researchers/boyle_bibliography.htm (10007 words)

	Stowe Landscape Gardens: Templa Quam Dilecta - 6 March 2003
		He employed a lot of famous people such as the architects John Vanbrugh and James Gibbs as well as garden designers William Kent and Lancelot Capability Brown.
		It was during the fourth baronet's reign that the Rotondo and the Temple of Venus were built.
		Woden was probably still thought of as the king of the Germanic pantheon in the seventeen-twenties when Rysbrack designed the originals of these sculptures.
	www.mjausson.com /2003/walk06Mar03.htm (2126 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		On the south and north sides are two splendid chimney-pieces of white marble, the shelves supported by linked terminal figures at the angels, the friezes sculptured with cornucopias in bold relief and a rams head in the centre.
		These were carved by John Michael Rysbrack (1694- 1770) a Belgian sculpture.
		On the centre bookcase, the bronze figure of Sir Fancis Drake, a godson to the 2nd Earl, looks out towards the west, perhaps musing on his sea voyages and regretting the disappearance of the 4th Dukes frigate.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/historichouses/south_east/woburn/wosaloon.html (295 words)

	John michael - John Michael Lamb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	newwebpublish.com /?q=john-michael (209 words)

	John Michael Rysbrack Online
		John Michael Rysbrack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		John Michael Rysbrack in the Art Renewal Center
		All images and text on this John Michael Rysbrack page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/rysbrack_john_michael.html (119 words)

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