Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
James Watt, 1736 - 1819. Engineer and inventor
About this artwork
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artist:Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1841) English
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title:James Watt, 1736 - 1819. Engineer and inventor
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date created:1818
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materials:Plaster
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measurements:67.50 cm (height)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1887
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accession number:PG 347
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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...