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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.
497
N7
56 1.2
PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER XV.
Cause of Mr. Nollekens dismissing his Confessor. Songs
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.
tended bequests.
ling in full dress.
List of his in-
Model-
Professional anecdotes of him.
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
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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