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Also Known As John Bacon the Elder
Born November 24, 1740 • London • England
Died August 4, 1799 (aged 58) • London • England
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Bacon, John: sculpture of Father Thames
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Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
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Hiram Powers
American sculptor
Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
French sculptor
Tinted Venus
John Gibson
British sculptor
Stone, Nicholas, Sr.; and Stone, Nicholas, Jr.
Nicholas Stone, Sr.
English sculptor
Flaxman, John: The Fury of Athamas
John Flaxman
British sculptor
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Joseph Nollekens
British sculptor
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Donatello: David
Donatello
Italian sculptor
Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Giovanni Pisano: marble pulpit
Giovanni Pisano
Italian sculptor
Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis
American sculptor
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
Desiderio da Settignano: A Little Boy
Desiderio da Settignano
Italian sculptor
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Pierre Puget
French sculptor
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Germain Pilon
French sculptor
Praxiteles: Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus
Praxiteles
Greek sculptor
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Luca della Robbia
Florentine sculptor
Daniel Chester French, c. 1915
Daniel Chester French
American sculptor

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