Francis Leggatt Chantrey

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Francis Chantrey
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Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (born April 7, 1781 in Jordanthorpe near Sheffield , † November 25, 1841 in London ) was a British sculptor , painter and draftsman .

In 1793, after the death of his father, a carpenter , Francis found accommodation with a Sheffield grocer. In 1797 the boy started his apprenticeship there with the carver and gilder Ramsay. From 1802 he worked - also in Sheffield - as a portrait painter. In the spring of 1804 he went to London, exhibited one of his portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts and made trips to Dublin and Edinburgh . As of late summer 1804 again in London, he became a student of Joseph Nollekens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools , the modeling . Francis Chantrey spent the winter of 1805 in his native Sheffield. In the years up to 1809 he exhibited busts in London and Paris . For example, he created busts of the admirals Earl Howe , Adam Duncan , Earl of St. Vincent and Lord Nelson .

On November 23, 1809, Francis Chantrey married his cousin Mary Anne Wale (1787–1875) and suddenly got rid of all current financial worries thanks to her dowry. In 1811 he got the order for a statue of King George III. Portrait busts of John Horne Tooke , Benjamin West , the mezzotint artist John Raphael Smith (1751–1812), Thomas Stothard , James Northcote (1746–1831), Granville Sharp and James Watt were created .

On November 4, 1815, Francis Chantrey was appointed Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Arts . 1817 was his tomb artistic work Sleeping Children special recognition of colleagues at the academy. On February 10, 1818, he was made a full member of the Academy for the bust of the Academy President Benjamin West .

In 1819 Francis Chantrey toured Italy and became an honorary member of the Florence and Rome Academies . In 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1835 the King of England made his court sculptor Francis Chantrey a Knight Bachelor degree . The universities of Oxford and Cambridge awarded the sculptor a Magister artium and a Doctor of Civil Law.

Maurice W. Brockwell writes in Thieme-Becker : “As an artist, far overrated by his contemporaries, but reduced to a rather modest degree of art-historical importance by posthumous criticism as a typical representative of the academic classical portrait sculpture of the pre- Victorian era, Chantrey owes his continued existence to The memory of posterity mainly of the endowment of his wife, initially his wife, but in the next inheritance of the Royal Academy willed assets of 150,000 pounds sterling . "

The British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London own drawings (portraits) by Francis Chantrey.

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Web links

Commons : Francis Chantrey  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chantrey, Francis Leggatt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt; Chantrey, Francis Legatt; Chantrey, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Jordanthorpe near Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1841
Place of death London