OBSERVATIONS ON SCULPTURE. 471 
or copper, bronzed, are substituted. Assisted by 
that delightful little volume, “The Lives of 
British Sculptors,” by Allan Cunningham, I pro- 
pose to notice, briefly, some of the works of Eng- 
lish Sculpture, in chronological order, beginning 
with those of GrinLEY GipBons, who was patro- 
nized by Charles II., and James II., and who is 
well known by his exquisite carvings in wood, 
at Chatsworth and Petsworth. 
He began with pedestals, and at Windsor 
wrought that fine pedestal in marble, on which 
the Equestrian Statue, by Stada, of Bremen, was 
placed ; and afterwards the pedestal for the Char- 
ing Cross Statue, by the same hand. By its ap- 
propriate decorations, it has been said that the 
Windsor pedestal belongs to the line of Stuarts. 
That of Charing Cross ‘would suit any statue of 
corresponding proportions. The statue of James, 
at Whitehall, was the work of Gibbons, who was 
employed by a certain Tobias Rustat, keeper of 
Hampton Court, and received five hundred 
pounds for it. It has great ease of attitude and 
a certain serenity of air, and is not unworthy of 
the hand that moulded it. Gibbons made a mag- 
nificent Tomb, for Baptist Noel, Viscount Camb- 
den, in the Church of Exton, in Rutlandshire ; 
