Maximilian Colt
Maximilian Colt (alias Maximilian Coult) (died after 1641) was a
Life
Colt was a
On 28 July 1608, he was appointed the King's Master Carver. He was employed decorating several Royal barges in 1621.[2] The carvings were painted by John de Critz and detailed in his bill.[3]
Colt provided two wooden effigies of King James in 1625 for use in his funeral ceremonies at Denmark House and Westminster Abbey, the latter with articulated limbs, which would be dressed with the king's clothes and posed in a catafalque designed by Inigo Jones. Colt based the faces on a death mask made at Theobalds.[4]
Colt also produced fine sepulchral monuments for many of the
Colt was briefly imprisoned in the Fleet Prison, late in his life.[2]
He was not the
Family
By his wife, Susan, Maximilian had at least two sons, John (also a sculptor) and Alexander, and a daughter who died young.[2]
Notes
- ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 20 (London, 1968), p. 108: Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1791), p. 319.
- ^ a b c d Lee 1887.
- ^ Devon, Frederick, ed., Issues of the Exchequer in the Reign of James I (London, 1836), pp. 276, 289
- ^ David Howarth, Images of Rule (Macmillan, 1997), p. 174: Anthony Harvey & Richard Mortimer, The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey (Boydell, 1994), pp. 11, 67.
- ^ Fiona Pearson, Virtue and Vision, Sculpture and Scotland (National Galleries of Scotland, 1991), p. 28.
References
- Lee, Sidney (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 407–408.
- Esdaile, K.A. (1946). English Church Monuments 1510–1840. Batsford.
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