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The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey (1911)

Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 137

An illustration from The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey, 1911, leaf 137 — isSir Cloudesley Shovel. Nagler says of his work that it isbarbarous in style and devoid of any charm, and latercritics have, more or less, echoed his words ; but if nota great sculptor, Bird at least succeeded in becoming apopular one. Art and literature at this period form a verycurious contrast.… … JOHN MICHAEL RYSBRACK RYSBRACK 99 exaggerated, and, to use again the untranslatable Frenchword, flamboyant to a painful degree ; what wonder thenthat a man, admittedly no genius, should have beenswept along in the current of popular predilection ?Rather should it be remembered to his credit thathe…

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