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<p>Grinling Gibbons was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, of English parents. After training there as an artist, he came to England in the 1660s, and soon began to work as a sculptor, particularly in wood. One of his first large scale decorative projects was a series of interiors at Cassiobury Park, the residence of the Earl of Essex near London. On the basis of an early 19th-century watercolor, this overmantel has been identified as one of the decorations for the Green Drawing Room of that
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Grinling Gibbons</div>
between circa 1675 and circa 1677 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1675-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1675-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1677-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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