AND HIS TIMES:

COMPREHENDING A

LIFE OF THAT CELEBRATED SCULPTOR;

AND MEMOIRS OF SEVERAL

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS,

FROM THE TIME OF

ROUBILIAC, HOGARTH, AND REYNOLDS,

TO THAT OF

FUSELI, FLAXMAN, AND BLAKE.

BY

JOHN THOMAS SMITH,

KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1828.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XV.

Songs

Cause of Mr. Nollekens dismissing his Confessor.

of his youthful days. His bed. Unquiet nights produc-

tive of charity. Liberality to his domestics. Coarseness

of his food and manner of eating. Inferiority of his ward-

robe, and meanness of his domestic arrangements. Cha-

racter of his drawings and those of other Sculptors. His

Monumental designs and models. Infirmity of his latter

days and death. Attested copy of his Will and Codi-

cils
p. 1

CHAPTER XVI.

Funeral of Mr. Nollekens. His wardrobe. List of his in-

tended bequests. Professional anecdotes of him. Model-

ling in full dress. Taking casts from dead subjects. His

mask of Mr. Pitt. Statue erected at Cambridge. Mrs.

Siddons's remarks on it. Economy and profits of the Sculp-

tor. Bust of Lord Londonderry. Economy in fuel.

Fuseli's opinion of Nollekens. His bust of Mr. Coutts;

anecdotes of its execution. His collection of casts and

a

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models. Wigs painted by Lely and Kneller. Wycherley

and Fielding wigs. Old system of wig-stealing. Mr.

Nollekens's features and likeness in his busts. His busts of

Mr. Fox

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CHAPTER XVII.

Sale of Mr. Nollekens's collection of Sculpture. Mending

antiques. Sale of his prints, &c. Account of his seated

female figure. Patrons of modern English Sculptors.

Antique foot. Sir Joshua Reynolds's throne-chair. List

of busts, monuments, and statues, executed by Nollekens.

Chronological list of all his sculptures exhibited at the

Royal Academy, from 1771 to 1816. Conclusion

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