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Memorials of Sir Francis Chantrey, R.a. Sculptor, in Hallamshire and Elsewhere
Memorials of Sir Francis Chantrey Ra Sculptor in Hallamshire and Elsewhere Author:John Holland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: J. Pierce Subjects: Sculpture Sculptors Art / Individual Artist Art / Sculpture Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition... more » of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE SCULPTOR IN SHEFFIELD. " Those who wish to trace the return of English Sculpture from the foreign artificial and allegorical style, to its natural and original character -- from cold and conceited fiction to tender and elevated truth -- will find it chiefly in the history of Francis Chantrey." -- Blackwood's Magazine, April, 1820. To Norton, as the birth-place of Chantrey, I have already adverted at length, and to that village, as his selected burial-place, I shall return hereafter; meanwhile, it has been shown that Hallamshire had a parental claim on the Painter -- as the facts of this chapter will prove it had on the Sculptor also. 182 LACK OF SCULPTURE IN SHEFFIELD. Ridiculous as it would be to look for the germ of his genius in any of those fictions of boyhood which I have previously mentioned, it does not seem equally immaterial here to remark, that at the time when Ramsay's apprentice first began to try his hand at modelling, there was not perhaps a large town in England that afforded fewer examples or incentives to such a pursuit than Sheffield. Three recumbent figures, and one kneeling effigy, in the " Shrewsbury Chapel," at the Parish Church, comprised the monumental statuary -- probably the work of Italian artists; while out-of-doors there were a respectably executed figure of Justice, by Waterworth, of Doncaster, at the head of the Shambles; a spirited profile of Shakspeare, with some dramatic symbols, on the pediment of the Theatre, executed by a wandering stranger of the name of R...« less