Stone, Nicholas (1586–1647)

English sculptor and painter. He was appointed master mason for building the new banqueting house of Whitehall, London (1619), and in 1626 master mason of Windsor Castle. His tombs include those of the poets Edmund Spenser (Westminster Abbey) and John Donne (St Paul's), and the scholar Thomas Bodley (Oxford).

Stone was born near Exeter, Devon, and studied painting and sculpture in Italy and the Netherlands. His son Henry Stone (died 1653) was also a sculptor and painter. His second son Nicholas Stone (died 1647), also a sculptor, worked under the baroque sculptor and architect Bernini in Rome.