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| 1782 |
| | Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style | |
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| 1785 |
| | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
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| 1815 |
| | Wellington is presented with a twice-life-size nude marble statue, by Canova, of his vanquished enemy Napoleon | |
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| 1843 |
| | The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square | |
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| 1885 |
| | The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic | |
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| 1886 |
| | The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour | |
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| 1893 |
| | An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus | |
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| 1902 |
| | The sculptor Aristide Maillol has his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Vollard in Paris | |
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| 1905 |
| | The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London | |
| | Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941 Tate Britain
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| 1905 |
| | Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris | |
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