Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Banks, Thomas

BANKS, THOMAS, an English sculptor, born in 1735. He studied sculpture in the Royal Academy, and in Italy, where he executed several excellent pieces, particularly a bas-relief representing Caractacus brought prisoner to Rome, and a Cupid catching a butterfly, the latter work being afterward purchased by the Empress Catharine. Among his other works was a colossal statue of “Achilles Mourning the Loss of Briseis,” in the hall of the British Institution, and the monument of Sir Eyre Coote, in Westminster Abbey. He died in 1805.

Source: Collier's New Encyclopedia 1. (1921) New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company. 410.