Biography

British mason-sculptor and architect, trained under Hendrick de Keyser in Amsterdam. and appointed master mason to James I (1619). He worked on the Banqueting House, Whitehall, where he began an association with Inigo Jones. He is best known for his tombs, which include that of Francis Holles (Westminster Abbey) based on Michelangelo's tomb of Giuliano de Medici, and that to John Donne (made from Donne's own design, St Paul's Cathedral).