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 292 Beitish Sculpture. of merit who settled in England early in his career. His colossal figure of Richard Cceur de Lion, in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, is one of his best works in England. His equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert, at Turin, the tomb of Bellini in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, the grand altar of the Madeleine, Paris, and statues of the Emperor and the Duke of Orleans, are also very fine. John Thomas (1813 — 1862), who is chiefly known as superintendent of the masons and carvers employed on the ornamentation of the New Houses of Parliament, produced some few independent works, of which the marble group of the Queen of the Britons rousing her Subjects to revenge is the principal. John Thomas will always be remembered as the head of that large school of carvers in stone and wood which he helped to form, and in the ranks of which many men of talent and some of genius have appeared. Hardly a church or a mansion has been built since the " Gothic Revival," without more or less architectural carving being introduced ; and in important works — such, for example, as the Palace of Westminster — the decorations have included statues, many of them of no small merit. He deserves special recognition both for the work that he did and the influ- ence which he exercised over this branch of art. William Behnes, who died in 1864, was very successful with portrait-statues : that of Sir Robert Peel in the City, and of George IV. in Dublin, are from his hand. Alfred G. Stevens (1817 — 1875) was the sculptor of the monument to the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral; one of the grandest efforts of genius of modern times. Some of his studies for this work are in the South Kensington Museum,