William Palmer (sculptor)

William Palmer (1673–1739) was an English sculptor and stonemason based in London.

He has been described as "one of the most important of early eighteenth-century sculptors" in England, his main works mostly being funerary monuments.

[1] He was born in London the son of William Palmer, a coachman in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields.

He was apprenticed to James Hardy in 1687 but in 1689/90 transferred to the yard of Josiah Tully.

In 1718 he became official mason to Lincoln's Inn and remained such until his death in late 1739.