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Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants. Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1 ...
Zerubbabel Collins (1733–1797) was a carver of stone gravestones in New England in the 18th century. He has been called "one of the most important carvers represented in Vermont in the years after the American Revolution" [1] and "one of the most talented [gravestone carvers] of his time".
Tombstone Carver, Soldier in French and Indian War & American Revolutionary War. Years active. 1747−1798. Gershom Bartlett (February 19, 1723 – December 23, 1798) was a stone carver who carved tombstones in colonial Connecticut and Vermont. His carved gravestones are widespread in colonial burying grounds in eastern Connecticut as well as ...
Prominent New England grave carver active between 1748 and 1798 in Bolton, Connecticut, and Pompanoosuc, Vermont. Tombstone dated 1756 carved by Gershom Bartlett. Robert Beall (1836–1892) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, sculptor of fonts, pulpits and reredoses. Also a monumental mason. Carlo Bergamini (1870–1934), Italian-New Zealander
Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 – 7 July 1531) was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between the Late Gothic, to which he essentially belonged, and Northern Renaissance art, a master in limewood and stone.
Reeves was the most prominent firm of monumental masons (tombstone carvers) in Bath, Somerset. They flourished from c. 1778 to the 1860s. [ 1] They often signed their work with "Reeves," or occasionally "Reeves & Son of Bath" when commissioned outside of Bath. One memorial is in the Grade I-listed City of London church St. Magnus the Martyr.
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Famous Sculptor and Wood Carver. Known for. Works on St Paul's Cathedral. Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and ...