Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet
About this artwork
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artist:Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1841) English
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title:Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet
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date created:Executed 1828
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materials:Marble
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measurements:74.20 cm (height)
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credit line:Given anonymously 1907
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accession number:PG 662
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Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sir Francis Chantrey was the most outstanding sculptor of his generation. Although his beginnings were humble and his skills mainly self-taught, he had a hugely successful career as a sculptor of portrait busts, statues, public monuments and funerary memorials. His sitters came from a wide spectrum...