Chantrey
SIR FRANCIS, an English sculptor, born near Sheffield, April 7, 1781; was the son of a well-to-do carin boyhood his chief amusement was in drawing and modeling figures, and he ing figures, and he was apprenticed in gilder. In 1802 he commenced work for himself at Sheffield by taking portraits After studying at the Royal its in crayons.
London he eventually settled in the Royal Academy in metropolis, where he presented numerof the Royal as the first monumental sculptor of his time. In 1816 he was chosen an associate and in 1818 a member of the Royal Academy.
He was knighted in 1835. "Sleeping Children," in Litchfield Cathe- His most celebrated works dral; the statue of Lady Louisa Russell, are the in Woburn Abbey; the bronze statue of William Pitt, in Hanover Square, London; a statue of Washington, in the Sta Horner, Canning, Sir J. Malcolm, etc., in State House, Boston; and statues of Westminster Abbey.
His best works are his busts, but his fulllength figures beanatomy, and several of his equestrian tray an insufficient acquaintance with statues are still more defective. He died Nov. 25, 1842.
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Pop. (1910) 9,272; (1920) a city of Kansas, in Han-Kiang, in the province of Kwang-