 The statue of James II is one of three of the Stuart monarchs commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat from Grinling Gibbons 's workshop in the 1670s and ' 80s , the others being of James 's brother and predecessor Charles II : an equestrian statue in Windsor Castle and a standing figure at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea . The statue of James II was commissioned for the Palace of Whitehall , apparently at the same time as the standing Charles II , and the two works might have been intended as pendent pieces . It was produced in the workshop of Grinling Gibbons at a reported cost of £ 300 ( equivalent to about £ 42 @,@ 000 at 2014 prices ) . Although long attributed to Gibbons himself , large @-@ scale sculptures were not his forté and it is probable that the statue 's principal originator was the Dutch sculptor Artus Quellinus III ( also known as Arnold Quellan ) , who was working at Gibbons ' workshop at the time . 
