. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. th. Butwhen the madness of fanatics daily increased, when evenreligion itself was banished, then he bid adieu to arestless, rebellious, and ungrateful country, whichwas so unworthy of such a pattern of true christianlove, both towards God and his neighbour, that heat length happily changed it for a better, namely aheavenly, on the 18th Dec, 1640, in the 55th year ofhis age. Near him lies Anne, his right honourable wife,descended from the ancient family of the Everards ofLa
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. th. Butwhen the madness of fanatics daily increased, when evenreligion itself was banished, then he bid adieu to arestless, rebellious, and ungrateful country, whichwas so unworthy of such a pattern of true christianlove, both towards God and his neighbour, that heat length happily changed it for a better, namely aheavenly, on the 18th Dec, 1640, in the 55th year ofhis age. Near him lies Anne, his right honourable wife,descended from the ancient family of the Everards ofLangleys, in this County of Essex; who, after she hadseen an only son and five excellent daughters adornedwith their parents virtues, which they so excelled inas to excite the envy of mankind, followed her husband 6o LIVES OF THE BRITISH SCULPTORS to heaven, there to enjoy again his amiable and mosthappy company among the saints, on the 5th of August,in the year of our Lord 1647. Edward Pierce lived in a house at the corner of SurreyStreet, Strand, and here he died in 1698, being buriedin the Savoy Chapel near by. Sfcw. CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER CHAPTER IVCIBBER AND GRINLING GIBBON Caius Gabriel Cibber may be regarded, in some respects,as the first of those sculptors, domiciled in England,who wrought in this branch of art in the way we under-stand sculpture to-day ; that is, as a carver of figuresrather than as one who adorned buildings with sculpturedfriezes and arabesques; in a word, as an artist withoutthe additional labour of an artisan ; for although in hisearlier days he not improbably united, as was then thefashion, the functions of the sculptor, architect, andmason, when he came to his own he almost entirelyrestricted himself to the production of statues and busts,and thus, it may be said, pioneered in this country theway for the fine succession of sculptors which followedhim. We are accustomed nowadays to associate the nameof Cibber with the actor-dramatist and wit of Georgia
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