Editing Thomas Banks (sculptor) (section)

==Works==
Among other works in [[St Paul's Cathedral]] by Banks are the monuments to Captain [[George Blagden Westcott]] and Captain [[Richard Rundle Burges]], and in [[Westminster Abbey]] to Sir [[Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)|Eyre Coote]], General Loten, [[Sir Clifton Wintringham]] and [[William Woollett]]. His bronze bust of [[Warren Hastings]] is in the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref name="RGunnis"/>

[[File:Thomas Banks Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry c 1789.jpg|thumb|Engraving by [[Benjamin Smith (engraver)|Benjamin Smith]] of Banks's sculpture ''Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry'', formerly at the entrance to the [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery]]]]
[[File:Sculpture of Shakespeare in the garden of New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.jpg|thumb|Shakespeare attended by Poetry and Painting]]
Banks's best-known work is perhaps the colossal group of ''Shakespeare Attended by Painting and Poetry'',<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZM3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74 |title=Annals of Thomas Banks |date=1938 |publisher=CUP Archive |language=en}}</ref> which since 1871 has been placed in the garden of [[New Place]], [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref>{{NHLE | num=1298541 |desc=Shakespeare Monument on east side of the Great Gardens of New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon |accessdate=8 July 2017}}</ref><ref name="JoDarke">{{cite book|author=Jo Darke|publisher=Macdonald Illustrated|year=1991|title= The Monument Guide to England and Wales |isbn=0-356-17609-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Monument to Shakespeare (Shakespeare Between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Pain) |url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/7657c6b2.html  |website=The Courtauld Institute of Art |access-date= 9 November 2022}}</ref> The high-relief sculpture was completed in 1789 for a recess in the upper façade of [[John Boydell]]'s new [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery|Shakespeare Gallery]] in [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]].<ref name="JoDarke"/> Banks was paid 500 guineas for the group which depicts Shakespeare, reclining against a rock, between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting.<ref>{{harvnb|Sheppard|1960|pp=325–338}} cites ''Signature'', new series, 1949, No. 8, pp. 3–22.</ref> Beneath it was panelled pedestal inscribed "He was a Man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again".<ref>{{harvnb|Sheppard|1960|pp=325–338}} states "Illustrations of the exterior of the gallery are in B.M., Crace Views, portfolio XI, sheet 20, No. 47; Soane Museum, Soane drawings, drawer 18, set 7, No. 14; C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, Plate XIV".</ref> The sculpture remained in Pall Mall until the building was demolished in 1868 or 1869, when it was moved to New Place.{{sfn|Sheppard|1960|pp=325–338}}

One of his most bizarre works is the 1801 ''Anatomical Crucifixion'', a dissected body nailed to a cross, in the [[Hunterian Museum, London|Hunterian Museum]] in London.