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Johannes Michel or '''John Michael Rysbrack''' (born June 27 , 1694 in Antwerp ; died January 8 , 1770 in London ) was an Eighteenth Century Flemish Sculptor . His birth-year is sometimes (wrongly) given as 1693 or 1684. Rysbrack studied drawings by Italian masters, before establishing himself in London in 1720. He executed busts and statues of the most prominent men of his day, including the Monument to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey , a statue of Marlborough , and Busts of Walpole , Bolingbroke , and Pope . He also cast the Bronze Equestrian Statue Of William III in Queen Square , Bristol in 1733, and a later monument to Edward Colston in All Saints, Bristol . He was the brother of Pieter Andreas Rysbrack . EXTERNAL LINKS
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