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	(2) Michael [Johannes Michel] Rysbrack (bapt Antwerp, 27 June 1684; d London, 8 Jan 1770). Sculptor and draughtsman, brother of (1) Pieter Andreas Rysbrack. His skill as a modeller and marble carver and his lively and eclectic style made him the foremost monumental, architectural and portrait sculptor in England in the 1720s and 1730s. The success of his younger rivals Louis-François Roubiliac and Peter Scheemakers (ii) caused a decrease in the number of Michael Rysbrack’s commissions in the early 1740s, but he retained the loyalty of influential long-term patrons and continued to produce work of high quality. Part of the Rysbrack family
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	Rysbrack, (John) Michael Belgium, §IV, 3: Sculpture, c 1550–1830 England, §XV, 1: Art education, before 1768 Gibbs, James, §1: Training and architectural career Rysbrack collaboration England, §IV, 3: Sculpture, c 1660–c 1830 Gibbs, James, §2: Style and influence Hospital, §2: Decoration Kandler, Charles London, §V, 2(ii)(b): Westminster Abbey: Sculpture, 1511 and later metalwork Clocks and watches, §5(i)(a): Clocks, 1701–1830: Britain methods Terracotta, §II, 2(i)(a): History and uses in the Western world: Sculpture patrons and collectors Boyle: (2) Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, §2: 1715–19 Churchill, John Coke: (1) Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester Hoare (i): (1) Henry Hoare Hudson, Thomas Macro, Cox Prior, Matthew Stourhead Tillemans, Peter Walpole: (1) Robert Walpole sculpture Temple, Richard Terracotta, §II, 2(i)(c): History and uses: Western world: Sculpture: 17th–18th century equestrian monuments Bristol, §1(ii): History and urban development, after c 1700 Rysbrack: (2) Michael Rysbrack, §2: Middle years, 1730–45 portraits Scheemakers: (2) Peter Scheemakers Sloane,Hans tombs Monument, public, §5: Neo-classicism Tomb, §VI, 3(i): Western world, c 1600–c 1780: Formal and iconographical developments

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