ROUBILLIAC, LOUIS FRANÇOIS

ROUBILLIAC, LOUIS FRANÇOIS
   sculptor, born at Lyons; studied in Paris, came to London; executed there statues of Shakespeare in the British Museum, Sir Isaac Newton at Cambridge, and Händel at London (1693-1762).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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