(b Flensborg, Denmark, 1630; d London, 1700). Danish sculptor working in England. Son of a cabinetmaker to the King of Denmark, he was sent to study in Rome at the King's expense at the age of about 17; then he visited the Netherlands and arrived in England at the end of the Commonwealth, just before 1660. He became assistant to John (son of Nicholas) Stone, and both were paid in 1660 for carving capitals for Chesterton House, Warwicks (destr.). On Stone's death in 1667, Cibber set up on his own, applying in December to carve statues for the Royal Exchange (destr. 1838), London, then being rebuilt after the Great Fire (1666). He was told to reapply later as statues were 'very remote from the [Committee's] thoughts, having the whole Exchange to build first'. There is no certainty that any of the figures were eventually carved by him.
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