Sculptor. Born in England of French parents, he lived and worked near Fleet Ditch in London. He worked on a small scale in marble, and, according to the chronicler, George Vertue, would ‘cutt in Marble from the Life a Portrait for 2 guineas’. Vertue also records that he worked on the wax figures exhibited by a Mr Salmon, and that he assisted in the casting of Grinling Gibbons’s statue of James II, Trafalgar Square (1686).
Bibliography: I. Roscoe et al, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660–1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 104; G. Vertue, ‘Notebooks’, Vol. 1, The Walpole Society, XVIII, 1929–30, p. 89; P. Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster. Volume 1, Liverpool, 2011, pp. 291, 436.
Philip Ward-Jackson, 2011