18th century

Ticciati, Girolamo

Active: late 17th century – mid 18th century

Girolamo Ticciati (1676–1745) was an Italian sculptor active in Florence during the late Baroque and early eighteenth century. He was trained within the Florentine tradition and developed a sculptural language that combines Baroque vitality with increasing formal discipline.

Ticciati produced both freestanding sculpture and reliefs for ecclesiastical and civic contexts. His work is marked by energetic poses, expressive drapery, and a growing clarity of structure that anticipates later eighteenth-century classicising tendencies.

Vincenzo Foggini

Active: early 18th century

Vincenzo Foggini was an Italian sculptor active in Florence in the early eighteenth century. Working within the Florentine Baroque tradition, he is chiefly known for allegorical and decorative sculpture executed as part of larger architectural and commemorative ensembles.

Westmacott Jr, Richard

Active: 1795–1856

Richard Westmacott the Younger (1775–1856) was one of Britain’s leading sculptors of the early nineteenth century, renowned for monumental public sculpture and refined neoclassical reliefs. The son of sculptor Richard Westmacott ⓘ, he received his initial training in his father’s workshop before studying in Rome, where he absorbed the principles of antique sculpture at first hand.

Westmacott, Richard

Active: c. 1770–1808

Richard Westmacott (1747–1808) was an English sculptor best known for his funerary monuments and church sculpture in the late Georgian period. Trained in London and later in Rome, he worked within a restrained classical idiom derived from antique models, adapted to the commemorative needs of British ecclesiastical and civic settings.

Wilton, Joseph

Active: c. 1749–1803

Joseph Wilton (1722–1803) was an English sculptor active in the mid to late eighteenth century, best known for church monuments and commemorative sculpture executed during the transition from Baroque-derived traditions to mature Neoclassicism in Britain.

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