. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. his bustof Fox, wrhich brought him more notice than any otherof his productions. His dress stockings were also ratherremarkable, being ornamented with blue and whitestripes. . The portrait which John Jackson painted of Nollekens,if studied together with this description, will give us 188 LIVES OF THE BRITISH SCULPTORS a good idea of the sculptors appearance during the lateryears of his life ; while Chantreys bust, carved in 1816,*shows clearly the well-formed long head and
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. his bustof Fox, wrhich brought him more notice than any otherof his productions. His dress stockings were also ratherremarkable, being ornamented with blue and whitestripes. . The portrait which John Jackson painted of Nollekens,if studied together with this description, will give us 188 LIVES OF THE BRITISH SCULPTORS a good idea of the sculptors appearance during the lateryears of his life ; while Chantreys bust, carved in 1816,*shows clearly the well-formed long head and ratherWellingtonian profile which, from a perusal of Smithswords or a study of Jacksons picture, one would notgather that Nollekens possessed. Nollekens had no children, and whenever the sculptorwas asked by a stranger, in the presence of Mrs. Nollekens,whether he had any family, the lady, pointing to theinnumerable figures and busts which crowded his studio,would exclaim, A very great family, sir. All theseare Mr. Nollekenss children. * There is also one by Dance, now in the Diploma Gallery at JOHN BACON CHAPTER IXJOHN BACON Of all the British sculptors Bacon was perhaps the onewho best combined in himself those characteristics whichhave always appealed more or less forcibly to the Britishpublic. As an artist he seldom if ever attempted towork above the heads of the people ; he made his meaningso plain to the most ordinary intelligence that his outputwas from the first regarded with that satisfaction withwhich people receive anything they can readily under-stand, and which does not require any deep mentalexercise for its appreciation. He addressed himself tothe plain man, and the plain man comprehended himand rejoiced exceedingly. No recondite knowledge ofthe classics was necessary for the study of his achievement,as it frequently was for that of Flaxman ; no subtlerecognition of abstruse questions of form or line wasrequired, as it was, sometimes, in the ca
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