. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. 1811, by his bas-relief ofEpaminondas, he carriedoflf the first prize for sculp-ture, besides the grant of :ipension to enable him topu
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. 1811, by his bas-relief ofEpaminondas, he carriedoflf the first prize for sculp-ture, besides the grant of :ipension to enable him topursue his art - studies inItaly. After remaining fiveyears at Rome he visitedLondon and Paris, and in thelatter city gained a reputationby executing a statue of theprince of Conde. In 1836 hewas elected a member of theFrench Academy of Fine Arts,and became a professor in thatinstitution. His great work,the sculptures of the presentchurch of St. Genevieve, inParis, then the Pantheon,occupied the years 1835 to1837. Among his otherwisenotable productions are bas-reliefs of the battles ofFleurus and Heliopolis for thearch of Marseilles, France, andEpaminondas, now in themuseum of his native town;busts of Washington andLafayette, in the capitol atWashington, of Beranger,Lamartine, Chateaubriand andRossini at Paris, of Goetheand Humboldt. Of his funeralmonuments the one of MarcoBozzaris, at Missolonghi, pos-sesses great beauty. lie diedat Paris in SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY. /HE fame of the celebrated sculptor, Sir Francis Chantrey, rests not onlyupon his excellent art-works, but also upon his munificent contri-butions of money for the advancement and permanency of art inGreat Britain. He was born at Norton, England, in 1781. When old Statue of Lord John Russell. Executed by J. E. Botlinie. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880. he was apprenticed to a carver at Sheffield, but sometime after-he began the business of modeling busts and otherworks in clay succeauively atDublin, Edinbu
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