1836 British Sculptors John Flaxman Anne Damer Gibbons Cibber Nollekens Bacon

Description: Harper's Family Library The Lives Of The Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors By Allan Cunningham In Three Volumes ; Vol. III. Published By J. & J. Harper New York 1836 The title-page is dated 1833. Front cover dated 1836. Antique hardcover. Cloth-over-board. 4" x 6.25" , 315 pages. Over 185 Years Old Author Allan Cunningham ( 1784 - 1842 ) was a Scottish poet and author. This is a single volume of Cunningham's biographies of great artists. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of John Flaxman by artist John Jackson ( 1778 - 1831 ), British portrait artist. This volume contains biographies of great sculptors. The Contents : 1. Grinling Gibbons ( 1648 - 1721 ), Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver. Known for his work in England , including Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace , St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches , Petworth House and other country houses , Trinity College, Oxford , and Trinity College, Cambridge. Born and educated in Holland of English parents, his father was a merchant. He was a member of the Drapers' Company of London. He is widely regarded as the finest wood carver working in England of the period. He produced furniture and small relief plaques with figurative scenes. He also worked in stone, mostly for churches. 2. Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700) Danish sculptor , who enjoyed great success in England. He was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber. He was appointed "carver to the king's closet" by William III. Cibber worked extensively with the architects Sir Christopher Wren ( on St Paul's Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace ) and William Talman ( on Chatsworth House [ 1688-1691 ] and the version of Thoresby Hall which was entirely burnt down in 1745). Cibber produced a number of excellent church monuments, including those to the 7th and 8th Earls of Rutland at Bottesford, Leicestershire, and the extraordinary Sackville monument at Withyham in East Sussex. 3. Louis Francois Roubiliac ( 1702 –1762), French sculptor who worked in England. Roubiliac one of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, described by Margaret Whinney as " probably the most accomplished sculptor ever to work in England ". Roubiliac's work is mostly portrait busts , and, from the 1740s, sepulchral monuments. He also made several full-length portrait sculptures. His most important works in Westminster Abbey are the monuments to the Duke of Argyll (1748) , Handel (1761), Sir Peter Warren, Marshal Wade, and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale (1761). At Cambridge he made the statues of King George I in the Senate House, Cambridge, the Duke of Somerset and Sir Isaac Newton. Trinity College, Cambridge, has a series of busts by him of distinguished members of the college. The statue of King George II erected in Golden Square, London, was also his work. His celebrated bust of William Shakespeare , known as the Davenant bust, in the possession of the Garrick Club, London. 4. Joseph Wilton , RA ( 1722 - 1803), English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and the academy's third keeper. His works are particularly numerous memorialising the famous Britons in Westminster Abbey. 5. Thomas Banks , RA (1735 -1805), an important 18th-century English sculptor. His works are in St. Paul's Cathedral and in Westminster Abbey. His bronze bust of Warren Hastings is in the National Portrait Gallery. Banks' best-known work is perhaps the colossal group of " Shakespeare Attended by Painting and Poetry ", which since 1871 has been placed in the garden of New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. 6. Joseph Nollekens , R.A. ( 1737 - 1823 , sculptor. Widely considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. His sculptures include " Castor and Pollux " in marble ( a copy of the ancient Roman statue ), British political figures, busts of figures from the arts such as Benjamin West ( his subjects were represented in classical costume ), etc., etc. " Faith " , a sculpture commissioned by Henry Howard following the death of his wife Maria in 1788 in childbirth at Corby Castle , is said to be Nollekens' finest work. The sculpture can be seen in the Howard Chapel at the Parish Church of Wetheral, Cumbria , England. 7. John Bacon , RA ( 1740 - 1799 ), British sculptor who worked in the late 18th century. Bacon has been reckoned the founder of the British School of sculpture. His works adorn St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London ; Christ Church and Pembroke College in Oxford ; Bath Abbey ; Bristol Cathedral ; Windsor Castle , etc.. 8. Anne Seymour Damer ( 1748 - 1828), English sculptor. Once described as a ' female genius ' by Horace Walpole, she was trained in sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi and John Bacon. Influenced by the Enlightenment movement, Anne was an author, traveller, theatrical producer and actress, as well as an acclaimed sculptress. She exhibited regularly at The Royal Academy from 1784 to 1818. It is believed that Damer was a lesbian and was in a relationship with the actress Elizabeth Farren. 9. John Flaxman , RA ( 1755 - 1826 ), British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career, he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood 's pottery. Flaxman spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments. His works are numerous. ------- Condition Worn binding, with some loss of the spine cover. (see the photos ) The hinges are tight. Former Glastonbury Connecticut Library book with associated markings, including 1895 accession plate at the front. Foxed. The pages are otherwise good. ------- Over 185 Years Old Carefully Packed for Shipment to the Buyer

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