Sir richard westmacott biography of william shakespeare
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The Portrait Sculpture at Wilton House, Part 7.
The Portland Stone Statue of William Shakespeare in van Dyke costume.
Originally put up in the Holbein Porch
In the Front Hall at Wilton House which had been redesigned by James Wyatt (1746 - 1813) some time after 1801.
by Peter Scheemakers 1(1691 - 1781).
In 1705, following a fire, the 8th Earl rebuilt some of the oldest parts the house, making rooms to display his newly acquired Arundel marbles, which form the basis for the sculpture collection at Wilton today.
Following this Wilton remained relatively undisturbed for nearly a century, until the remodelling by James Wyatt.
For a ground plan at Wiltshire Records Office before the Wyatt demolitions and alterations see -
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/76cb423b-c8f7-4e05-9d8d-f35716852542
I believe that the Westminster Abbey Shakespeare Monument should be considered as Scheemakers masterpiece.
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Poets' Corner
South Transept of Westminster Abbey
This article is about the section of Westminster Abbey. For the neighborhood of Berkeley, California, see List of Berkeley neighborhoods.
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
The first poet interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400.[1]William Shakespeare was commemorated with a monument in 1740, over a century after his death. Over the centuries, a tradition has grown up of interring or memorialising people there in recognition of their contribution to British culture. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the honour is awarded to writers.
In 2009, the founders of the Royal Ballet were commemorated in a memorial floor stone and on 25 September 2010, the writer Elizabeth Gaskell was celebrated with the dedication of a panel in the memorial window.[2] On 6 December 2011, form
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Chapter Seven
1The Sharps arrived in Rome in early December of 1890 and stayed until March. Elizabeth recalled those months as “one long delight” for her husband, which “amply fulfilled even his hoppfull anticipation. He reveled in the sunshine and the beauty; he was in perfect health; his imagination was quickened and worked with great activity” (Memoir 173). In mid-December, Edith Wingate Rinder came from London to spend three weeks with Mona Caird, a close friend of the Sharps who was wintering in Rome “for her health.” A beautiful and smart young woman of twenty-six, Edith had married Mona’s cousin, Frank Rinder, less than a year earlier, on February 17, 1890. Edith and Frank were childhood sweethearts who had grown up as landed gentry on neighboring farms in the north of England. Educated at home and locally, Edith spent a year studying in Germany and worked for a time as a governess in Lincolnshire upon returning home. Frank was also educated in Lincolnshire