Nicholas Stone
sculptor, architect, and master mason; b. 1586; d. August 24, 1644.
Stone was a pupil of Isaac James, a mason, and assisted Hendrick van Keyser at Amsterdam. In 1614 he returned to England and executed many works from the designs of Inigo Jones, such as the Banqueting House, Whitehall (1619-1622), the portico of old S. Paul's; the water-gate at York Stairs, and the fine portal of S. Mary's, Oxford. He was appointed master mason at Windsor by Charles I, and was employed in the execution of a vast number of monuments. He was assisted and succeeded by his sons Henry, Nicholas, and John.
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1614.08.23 the equestrian statue of Henri IV, begun by Bologne, placed in position at the Pont Neuf, Paris
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