. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. as a worthy and diligent man,and who for many years occupied the responsible positionof land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, at was, however, not born there, but in Lambeth,where he first saw the light on December 29, , not even the maiden name, is recorded of hismother, but she is known to have given birth to twoother sons—one of whom, Charles, became like hisbrother a sculptor, although he never made any positionfor himself. The elder Bankss
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. as a worthy and diligent man,and who for many years occupied the responsible positionof land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, at was, however, not born there, but in Lambeth,where he first saw the light on December 29, , not even the maiden name, is recorded of hismother, but she is known to have given birth to twoother sons—one of whom, Charles, became like hisbrother a sculptor, although he never made any positionfor himself. The elder Bankss affairs were sufficiently flourishingto enable him to give his children a sound education,although it has been conjectured that Thomass subse-quent love and knowledge of the classics was more likelyto have been gained from translations than from anyintimate or extensive acquaintance with the youth must have shown artistic tendencies, foralthough these were not then sufficient to cause hisfather to place him with a sculptor, they were pronounced enough to show that a training in some branch of art 142. THOMAS BANKS THOMAS BANKS 143 would better suit his tastes and temperament than woulda commercial career. After having received the rudiments of ordinaryeducation at Ross, in Herefordshire, young Banks studiedfor a time with one Barlow, an ornamental carver, andremained with him for seven years till he (Banks) wastwenty-two years of age. At this moment WilliamKent was the god of Londons artistic (if it may bedignified with such a word) idolatry. Kent had becomesuccessful by pandering to all tastes and by being a kindof jack-in-all-trades of art—artist, sculptor, architect,landscape-gardener, and what not—and the elder Banks,probably recognising the advisability of his sons havingmore than one string to his bow, placed him under thefashionable arbiter of taste. It is not improbable thatKent may have been summoned to Badminton in connec-tion with the mansion or
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