Thomas Banks

Place: London

Born: 1735

Death: 1805

Biography:

Thomas Banks RA (29 December 1735 – 2 February 1805) was an important 18th-century English sculptor. The son of William Banks, a surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, he was born in London. He was educated at Ross-on-Wye. He was taught drawing by his father, and from 1750 to 1756 was apprenticed to a woodcarver, William Barlow, in ...