. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. lost one or two of its minor features:thus the George which hung round the kings neckhas disappeared, the hole from which it was suspendedbeing still visible ; while the sword with its bucklesand straps was stolen in 1810, and if, as seems probable,they were recovered and re-fixed, they disappearedagain, this time finally, in 1844, on the occasion ofQueen Victorias State visit to the City, to open theRoyal Exchange. It has been sometimes stated that Grinling Gibboncarved t
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. lost one or two of its minor features:thus the George which hung round the kings neckhas disappeared, the hole from which it was suspendedbeing still visible ; while the sword with its bucklesand straps was stolen in 1810, and if, as seems probable,they were recovered and re-fixed, they disappearedagain, this time finally, in 1844, on the occasion ofQueen Victorias State visit to the City, to open theRoyal Exchange. It has been sometimes stated that Grinling Gibboncarved the beautiful stone pedestal on which the statuestands, but it was really the work of Joshua Marshall,Master Mason to the Crown, who also executed thedecorations on Temple Bar. Marshall may thus beregarded in the light of a sculptor, but it is not, of course,improbable that Gibbon may have contributed thedesign, which certainly is worthy of him, especially asMarshall is not (with the exception stated) otherwiseknown as being anything beyond an official is interesting to remember that Sir Christopher Wren. STATUE OF CHARLES Le Sceur HUBERT LE SCEUR 51 also made a design for the base, not dissimilar from thatused by Marshall, and that the great architect super-intended the erection of the statue. I have spoken rather in detail about this fine work,because one can hardly know too much concerninga statue which is one of the few really classical monu-ments (did not one remember that of James II. byGrinling Gibbon, one might even say, the only one)to be seen in the streets of London. The beauty andgrace of its proportions; the dignity of the figure, theaccuracy and knowledge with which the horse is modelled,added, of course, to the fascinating personality which,with all his faults and shortcomings, the monarchpossessed, as Comely and calm he ridesHard by his own Whitehall, will combine to make this beautiful work of art one ofthe most attractive and interesting memor
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