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Title: The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937
Subjects: Sculptors -- Great Britain Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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cheemakers, claim the honour of educatingsuch a famous eleve as Nollekens.f * He produced a monument to Sir L. Robinson of considerable merit. f Smith records that Roubiliac, when he had to mend a broken antique,would mix grated Gloucester cheese with his plaster, adding the groundsof porter ; which mixture, when dry, forms a very hard cement. 128 LIVES OF THE BRITISH SCULPTORS Apart from his sculpture, Roubiliac is said to havepossessed a knowledge and love of poetry to a no in-considerable extent ; he even on occasion made excur-sions himself into verse ; but there are few people whohave not done as much, and the specimen quoted byDallaway, as a favourable example of the sculptorsfacility in this direction, is not sufficiently remarkableto require re-quotation. Roubiliac once, at least, made an attempt at oilpainting, and in the sale of his effects, this effort, aportrait of himself, was sold for 31. 6d. ! having appa-rently been purchased by a Mr. Scott, of Crown Court,Westminster.
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JOSEPH WILTON CHAPTER VI JOSEPH WILTON If to have been one of the founders of the Royal Academy,to have enjoyed the friendship of Sir Joshua Reynoldsand Dr. Johnson, to have designed the royal state coach,and to have achieved wealth, and distinction as a host,entitle a man to be considered famous, then JosephWilton, who was and did all these things, may be soregarded ; but as a sculptor, I fear, he cannot be creditedwith such an apotheosis. Not that I would go so far asto say that he was wholly undeserving of praise and thathe was entirely destitute of merit in this respect, forthis would be to err on the other side ; but he was oneof those men who achieve success rather through for-tuitous circumstances than from the force of genius ;who, with really little original talent, have the art ofmaking the best of what gifts they possess ; one of those,in short, who are apparently the delight of officialdom,and the despair of the true artist. But if Wilton cannot be considered among the mos

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