A Sculptor of Classical Grandeur: The Life and Legacy of Thomas Banks In the pantheon of eighteenth-century English art, few names evoke the dignified strength of Neoclassicism quite like Thomas Banks. Born in London in 1737, Banks was a man whose artistic soul was deeply rooted in the precision of his lineage and the grandeur of antiquity. The son of William Banks, a surveyor for the Duke of Beaufort, he inherited an early appreciati…
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