Details of Sculptor

Surname

Young

Alternative Surname

First Name

Thomas

Initial of Surname

Y

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1672-85

Year of Death

Biographical Details

A London wood-carver who worked in the naturalistic style associated with Grinling Gibbons, his first recorded payment, of £40, was made by Sir Robert Clayton for unspecified work in August 1672. In the 1680s he had a loosely-knit partnership with Jonathan Maine: on four occasions between 2 February 1683 and 19 December 1684 they received payments totalling £432 3s 11d from the 5th Earl of Exeter for work connected with the restoration of Burghley House, Northants. Young moved on to Chatsworth, where William Talman was rebuilding the south and east fronts for the 4th Earl (later 1st Duke) of Devonshire. There he joined Samuel Watson, the resident house carver, William Davis and Joel Lobb. Lobb and Young together provided a richly carved overmantel with heads of putti and garlands of flowers for the state music room. Young also worked at Kiveton, W R Yorks, a house possibly by Talman, at Subury, Derbys, and in the London churches of St Mary-at-Hill (1672) and St Mary Magdalenn, Old Fish Street (1685).
Literary References: Green 1964 (1), 112, 113, 119, 120, 123; Beard 1985, 688, 690
Archival References: Clayton & Morris fol 242v, Aug 1672; James Whildon’s Accts, Chatsworth, 1685-99, 76