Part 1 16th century: Renaissance influence from Italy and France; the Netherlandish refugees. Part 2 The earlier 17th century: Nicholas Stone and his contemporaries - Nicholas Stone, the contemporaries of Nicholas Stone; sculpture at the court of Charles 1. Part 3 Restoration sculpture and the Baroque - 1660-1714: introduction - the Berninesque echo in the work of John Bushnell - Edward Pierce; the influence of the Netherlands - Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons and Arnold Quellin, John Nost, the mason - sculptors. Part 4 The antique, the Baroque, and the Rococo - 1714-1760: Francis Bird; the first foreign immigrants; Michael Rysbrack; Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux; Henry Scheemakers and Henry Cheere; Louis Francois Roubiliac; the later works of Rysbrack, Scheemakers, and Cheere; the impact of the foreign sculptors. Part 5 The first royal academicians: introduction - Joseph Wilton, Agostino Carlini and William Tyler, some contemporary sculptors. Part 6 Neo-classicism: Joseph Nollekens; John Bacon and some contemporaries - John Bacon, some contemporary sculptors; Thomas Banks; John Flaxman. Part 7 The early 19th-century: Sir Richard Westmacott; Sir Francis Chantrey.
