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The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey (1911)

Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 107

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,! even if his mother, which is not * Anecdotes of Painting. f The sculptor invariably wrote his name Gibbon, and as such it shouldbe spelt, although Gibbons is more frequently used now. Indeedin the registers of St. Pauls, Covent Garden, the tv/o names are thusvariously spelt: Grimlin, Grinling,… … fr&Q&rfirJ GRINLING GIBBON GRINLING GIBBON 73 unlikely—as Grinling seems to be a Dutch name andmay indeed have been the surname of her family—was anative of Holland.* It appears probable, although there is no certain recordof the fact, that young Gibbon came over to this countryduring the…

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