John Michael Rysbrack

John Michael Rysbrack, portrait by John Vanderbank, circa 1728.

Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack^[1] (27 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor. His birth-year is sometimes (wrongly) given as 1693 or 1684.

Rysbrack was born in Antwerp, Holland, and was the brother of Pieter Andreas Rysbrack. He studied drawings by Italian masters, before settling in London in 1720. He produced vivid portraits and monuments of lively baroque composition, rapidly establishing himself as a highly sought-after sculptor. He executed busts and funerary monuments of many of the most prominent men of his day, including the monument to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, a statue of Marlborough, and busts of Walpole, Bolingbroke, and Pope. Dr Cox Macro commissioned him to make a bust of Flemish painter Peter Tillemans on his death in 1734.^[2]

He also cast the bronze equestrian statue of William III in Queen Square, Bristol in 1733, and a later monument to Edward Colston in All Saints, Bristol.

He died in Vere Street, Westminster, London, England, in 1770.^[3]

Gallery of work

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  Thuner, originally in the gardens Stowe House now at the V&A Museum, London, England

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  King William III, Queen Square, Bristol

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  Inigo Jones, Chiswick House, London

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  Bacchus, Gulbenkian Museum

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  Hans Sloane, British Library, London

References

1. ^ Rysbrack, John Michael: Biography. Accessed 12 July 2010.
2. ^ Noakes, Aubrey, Sportsmen in a Landscape (Ayer Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0836920058), pp. 47–56: Peter Tillemans and Early Newmarket, Google Books. Accessed 7 February 2009.
3. ^ Peter Cunningham (1850). Hand-book of London: past and present. John Murray. p. 521. http://books.google.com/books?id=u5k9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA521. 

External links

• Portraits of Rysbrack
• "Model for the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton". Victoria and Albert Museum. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73121/model-sir-isaac-newton-1642-1727/. Retrieved 2007-11-19. 
• John Michael Rysbrack at Find a Grave

Persondata
Name	Rysbrack, John Michael
Alternative names	Johannes Michel
Short description	Sculptor
Date of birth	27 June 1694
Place of birth	Antwerp, Holland
Date of death	8 January 1770
Place of death	Vere Street, Westminster, London, England

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