Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . .MU.\ I .MJOXT T(J WOLFE, liV JOSKlll (Westminster Abbey.) and three years joungcr than Nollekens, came to the Academyfrom the Chelsea china works, and afterwards modelled groups,figures, and animals for the manufacturers of a kind of potterycalled lithodipra. He was a wonderfnl prize-winner, and out ofsixteen public monmnents for which he competed he was success-ful fifteen times. His works are plen
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . .MU.\ I .MJOXT T(J WOLFE, liV JOSKlll (Westminster Abbey.) and three years joungcr than Nollekens, came to the Academyfrom the Chelsea china works, and afterwards modelled groups,figures, and animals for the manufacturers of a kind of potterycalled lithodipra. He was a wonderfnl prize-winner, and out ofsixteen public monmnents for which he competed he was success-ful fifteen times. His works are plentiful at AVestminster, his PAINTING AND ENGRAVING. 787 a genuine admiration, notbut was apt, doubtless, toJoseph Nollekens was an !8I5] most famous work being Chathams monument, and his mostattractive that of Brigadier Hope. Banks had been apprenticedto a wood-carver, and had studied for a year in the St. MartinsAcademy, so that his advantages in point of training were con-siderable. He was, however, an inferior artist. He attemptedmany strange subjects, Armed Neutrality for one, which hedesigned for the Empress Catherine, and The FrenziedAchilles, which never found a purchaser. Hi
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