Joseph Nollekens

Joseph Nollekens.

Castor and Pollux; copy of an antique statue by Joseph Nollekens, Victoria and Albert Museum

Joseph Nollekens (11 August 1737 – 23 April 1823)^[1] was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. He was also a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768.

Life

Joseph Nollekens was born in 1737, the son of a painter of the same name. He studied first under Peter Scheemakers before studying and working as an antiques dealer, restorer and copier in Rome from 1759 to 1770. On his return to England he built up a large practice making busts and monuments, becoming one of the most fashionable portrait sculptors in the country.

Nollekens enjoyed the patronage of George III and went on to sculpt a number of British political figures, including George III himself, William Pitt the Younger, Charles James Fox, the Duke of Bedford and Charles Watson-Wentworth. He also made busts of a number of figures from the arts such as Laurence Sterne and Benjamin West. Most of his subjects are represented in classical costume. He also made mythical and allegorical figures.

He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1771 and a full academician the following year.^[2]

Nollekens died in London in 1823, having made a fortune from his work; he left around £200,000 in his will. A biography Nollekens and his times,^[3] by his executor John Thomas Smith was published in 1828, portraying him as a grotesque miser. It has been described as "perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English language".^[4]

References

1. ^ Nollekens, Joseph in Dictionary of national biography, vol. 41, 1895, pp. 97–99, http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati41stepuoft 
2. ^ Whinney, Margaret (1971). English Sculpture 1720–1830. London: HMSO. p. 113. ISBN 112900836. 
3. ^ John Thomas Smith. Nollekens 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, vol. 1 of 2, (2 ed.), London: Henry Colburn, 1829, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nollekens_and_his_Times .
4. ^  Graves, Robert Edmund (1896). "Smith, John Thomas (1766-1833)". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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