Who was more likely to patronize Renaissance sculptors ?
Sculptors both British and Europeans who were based in Britain and whose work is in the collection include Nicholas Stone , Caius Gabriel Cibber , Grinling Gibbons , John Michael Rysbrack , Louis - François Roubiliac , Peter Scheemakers , Sir Henry Cheere , Agostino Carlini , Thomas Banks , Joseph Nollekens , Joseph Wilton , John Flaxman , Sir Francis Chantrey , John Gibson , Edward Hodges Baily , Lord Leighton , Alfred Stevens , Thomas Brock , Alfred Gilbert , George Frampton , and Eric Gill .