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

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