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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)  , Danish sculptor, was born at Flensburg . He was the son of the king's cabinetmaker, and was sent to Rome at the royal charge while yet a youth . He came to England during the
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Protectorate, or during the first years of the Restoration . Besides the famous statues of Melancholy and Raving Madness ("
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great Cibber's brazen brainless brothers "), now at South
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Kensington, Cibber produced the bas-reliefs round the monument on Fish Street Hill .. The several kings of England and the
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Sir Thomas Gresham executed by him for the Royal
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Exchange were destroyed with the
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building itself in x838 . Cibber was long employed by the
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fourth
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earl of Devonshire, and many
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fine specimens of his
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work are to be seen at
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Chatsworth . Under that nobleman he took up arms in' 688 for William of Orange, and was appointed in return carver to the king's closet . He died rich, and, according to Horace Walpole, built the Danish church in
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London, where he lies buried beside his second wife, to whom he erected a monument . She was a
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Miss Colley of Glaiston,
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grand-daughter of Sir Anthony Colley, and the
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mother of his son Colley Cibber .

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