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BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 334 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805) , English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was land steward to the duke of Beaufort, was born in London on the 29th of December 1735. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a
wood
 -carver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, and before 1772, when he obtained a travelling studentship and proceeded to Rome, he had already exhibited several fine works. Returning to England in 1779 he found that the
taste
  for classic poetry, ever the source of his inspiration, no longer existed, and he spent two years in St
Petersburg
 , being employed by the empress Catherine, who purchased his " Cupid tormenting a Butterfly." On his return he modelled his colossal " Achilles mourning the loss of Briseis," a
work
  full of force and passion; and thereupon he was elected, in 1784, an associate of the Royal
Academy
  and in the following year a full member. Among other works in St Paul's cathedral are the monuments to Captain Westcott and Captain Burges, and in Westminster Abbey to Sir Eyre
Coote
 . His bust of Warren Hastings is in the National Portrait Gallery. Banks's best-known
work
  is perhaps the colossal group of " Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry," now in the garden of New Place, Stratford-on-Avon. He died in London on the and of February 18o5.


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