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| 1622 |
| | | Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Wood-carver Grinling Gibbons arrives from Holland to begin an immensely successful career in England | |
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| 1731 |
| | | The Flemish-born sculptor Michael Rysbrack creates a momument to Newton in Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes a book on Greek painting and sculpture which introduces a new strand of neoclassicism | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Catherine the Great founds the Hermitage as a court museum attached to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg | |
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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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