Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . -, the sculptor. He was born at Norton,near Sheffield, in 1781, and, as a boy, used toride a donkey, carrying milk into the town. Ona certain day, when returning home upon hisdonkey, Chantrey was observed by a gentlemanto be very intently engaged in cutting a stick with There is, or was, in it a small gallery with a lanthorn,by Sir John Soane. Sir F. Chantrey was pronouncedby the Foreigner, who is known as the author of• An Historical and Literary Tour in England, tobe the only English sculptor of his age who wasdist
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . -, the sculptor. He was born at Norton,near Sheffield, in 1781, and, as a boy, used toride a donkey, carrying milk into the town. Ona certain day, when returning home upon hisdonkey, Chantrey was observed by a gentlemanto be very intently engaged in cutting a stick with There is, or was, in it a small gallery with a lanthorn,by Sir John Soane. Sir F. Chantrey was pronouncedby the Foreigner, who is known as the author of• An Historical and Literary Tour in England, tobe the only English sculptor of his age who wasdistinguished by true originality, though still youngin reputation. Macaulay tells a good story of him, and onemost creditable to his magnanimity, which kept him. SALE OF HYDE PARK TURNPIKE. his penknife. Excited by his curiosity, he askedthe lad what he was doing, when, with great sim-plicity of manner, but with courtesy, the lad replied, I am cutting old Fox^s head. Foxe was theschoolmaster of the village. On this, the gentlemanasked to see what he had done, pronounced it tobe an excellent likeness, and presented the youthwith sixpence; and this may, perhaps, be reckonedthe first money Avhich Chantrey ever obtained forliis ingenuity. He took up his residence here shortly afterhis marriage in 1809. The house was then twoseparate residences—Nos. 29 and 30, Lower Bel-grave Place—but Chantrey threw the two housesinto one, and named them anew as part of Eccle-ston Street. In the studios at the back, all his bestworks—his bust of Sir Walter Scott, his SleepingChildren, and his statue of Watt—were executed. from being ashamed of his early struggles in life.^^hcn Chantrey dined with Rogers, he took par-ticular notice of a certain -vase, and o
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