. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ow of St. Annes Church, Liverpool, THOMAS BENTLEY. 165 work written at Biirslem, Wedgwoods native place, says,speaking of Josiali AVedgwood,— He took into partnershipMr. Richard Bentley, son of Dr. Bentley, the celebratedcritic and Archdeacon of Ely, a man of great ingenuity,taste, and learning, possessing too a large circle of acquaint-ance among people of rank and science. To him, it isgenerally u
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ow of St. Annes Church, Liverpool, THOMAS BENTLEY. 165 work written at Biirslem, Wedgwoods native place, says,speaking of Josiali AVedgwood,— He took into partnershipMr. Richard Bentley, son of Dr. Bentley, the celebratedcritic and Archdeacon of Ely, a man of great ingenuity,taste, and learning, possessing too a large circle of acquaint-ance among people of rank and science. To him, it isgenerally understood, Mr. Wedgwood was chiefly indebtedfor his classical subjects, for which his establishment becameso highly celebrated. This statement has been repeatedwith but little variation, in almost every notice which hasyet appeared of Wedgwood or of his productions downto the present time. I am enabled, however, to showthat this statement is erroneous, and that not only wasWedgwoods partner not the son of Archdeacon Bentley,the critic, but was not even named Richard. The com-panion, and afterwards partner, of Josiah AYedgwood was,as will be seen from the fac-simile of his autogiaph, which. I here engrave from a letter in my own possession, ThomasBentley. The letter from which this autograph is copied, isaddressed to My dear Friend, Mr. Josiah AVedgwood,at Etruria, &c. In connection with this autograph I givein the following illustration an engraving of the beautifulmedallion of Bentley, produced by AVedgwood as a com-panion, probably, to his own, from an example in my owncollection. The bust, it will be seen, is remarkably boldand fine, and must have been the work of an artist of nocommon order. In connection with this medallion, it will be interesting 166 THE WEDGWOODS. io note that a portrait of Thomas Bentley was painted byWright, of Derby, and is now preserved at Linley Wood. In
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