AUSTEN, WILLIAM, an eminent English artist of the fifteenth century, whose works in bronze are pronounced by Flaxman to equal in style the first Italian Cinquecentista. His best-known work, the magnificent tomb of Richard Earl of Warwick, who died in 1439, is in the Beauchamp chapel in that city. It is of gilt bronze, ornamented with many figures in a vigorous style, and displaying great knowledge of the human figure. It is inscribed as the work of "Willm. Austen, citizen and founder of London." See Dugdale's Warwickshire.