Cornelius Cure
Illustration — Tomb slab of Mary, Queen of Scots, copy of the effigy in Westminster Abbey, sculpted by Cornelius Cure and his son William, National Museum of Scotland, 1612 Cornelius Cure (died 1607) was an English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage, being the son of the sculptor, William Cure I. His father made and installed a fountain for Nicholas Bacon at Redgrave Hall in September 1568. Cure lived and worked in Southwark in Surrey (now London). William Cecil, Lord Burghley recommended his appointment to replace Edward Young as royal master mason to the courtier William Killigrew, praising his skill, honesty, and knowledge of work in foreign places.
Cornelius Cure
William (1514-1579) and Cornelius Cure († 1607) · Own work, Zenit, 2008-07-31 17:30 · CC BY-SA 3.0
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- 1501 · London.
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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- sculptor
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- art of sculpture
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Illustration — Tomb slab of Mary, Queen of Scots, copy of the effigy in Westminster Abbey, sculpted by Cornelius Cure and his son William, National Museum of Scotland, 1612 Cornelius Cure (died 1607) was an English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage, being the son of the sculptor, William Cure I. His father made and installed a fountain for Nicholas Bacon at Redgrave Hall in September 1568. Cure lived and worked in Southwark in Surrey (now London). William Cecil, Lord Burghley recommended his appointment to replace Edward Young as royal master mason to the courtier William Killigrew, praising his skill, honesty, and knowledge of work in foreign places.
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Born at London in 1501, died in London in 1609.
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Cornelius Cure was born in 1501.
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Cornelius Cure died at London.
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- 1.Diarmaid MacCulloch, Letters from Redgrave Hall (Suffolk Record Society, Boydell, 2007), p. 30 no. 38.
- 2.William Acres, Letters of Lord Burleigh to his son Robert Cecil (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 230-1.
- 3.Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic Elizabeth: 1595-1597 (London, 1869), p. 244.
- 4.TNA SP14/211 f.58r.
- 5.Catalogue of Antiquities, Works of Art and Historical Scottish Relics Exhibited in the Museum of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. xxviii. 1859.
- 6.Fraser, Antonia. Mary Queen of Scots. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 552. 1994. 0-297-17773-7.
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