This statue has been copied by the Bulbeck Foundry.
https://www.bulbeckfoundry.co.uk/page/statues-river-god/
https://www.bulbeckfoundry.co.uk/page/statues-large/
The lead original from Parham Park in Sussex. The figure was
brought to Parham by Robert Curzon from Hagley Hall in Staffordshire in the
second half of the nineteenth century.
A terracotta was sold by Sotheby's late 80's early 90's if memory serves.
Prior to it appearing in sotheby's, I had seen this statue in a garden in Marlborough.
https://drawingmatter.org/the-temple-of-flora-stourhead-a-paradise-revisited/
This is an extract from Stourhead, Henry Hoares Paradise Revisied by Dudley Dodd pub 2021 Head Zeus.
Maybe not the last word on the architecture and sculpture in the garden at Stourhead but the best work on the subject to date - highly recommended!
The Temple of Flora, Stourhead, Wiltshire, designed by Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769).
1753
Drawing by by C. W. Bampfylde (1720–1791).
Pen and colour wash, 280 × 470 mm.
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Henry Hoare Ledger 1734-49, 28 January 1743/44, ‘Thos Manning for a River God &c’ £15-15s. Anonymous 1764 (Stourton Gardens 1749), p. 102,
‘For
yonder silver god they sigh, they burn, | And pour their tears incessant thro’
his urn; | But cold as lead, and deaf when they complain, | Supine he lies, and
they but weep in vain. | See from beneath him (tinctur’d by the sun | With
colours radiant) sheets of water run’.
WSA, 383/907(1), Henry Flitcroft to Henry Hoare, 25 August 1744, ‘My Next shall bring you… the Temple of Ceres with the Rocky Arch in which I propose to place the River God, & a Sketch how I conceive the head of ye lake’;
Henry Flitcroft to HH, 7 September 1744, ‘I have inclosd to you the Plan & Elevation of ye Temple of Ceres with a Sketch of ye Entablature showing how the Tryglyphs & Metops should be proportioned with the Skuls &c introduced therein… I have also sent a plan & Section for the Manner of Laying the Foundations… a Section of ye inside of this Building shall be soon sent, with particular drawing of ye Doorcase & pedestal Mouldings’.
Payments to William Privett which may relate to the Temple of Flora: HH Ledger
1734-49; 27 September 1745, ‘on accot of ye Temple’ £40; 3 November 1746, ‘in
full of all Demands’ £28-8s-1d; 30 March 1747, ‘on accot of Buildg’ £30. C.
Hoare & Co., HB/5/A/6, Partners’ Ledger 1742-51, HH account, 5 October
1745, ‘His Bill to Willm Privet (Mason)’ £40; 30 December 1745, ‘Willm Privet
of Chillmark’s Bill’ £30.
Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769), elevation, Rocky Arch (the Cascade below the Temple of Flora), Stourhead, c.1744. Pen and colour wash, 178 × 315 mm. DMC 1233.
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Thomas Manning (d. 1747).
He was related to the Manning family of masons, but was a notable statuary in lead and artificial stone.
'Thomas Manning' who is described in John Nost I's will of 1710 as 'my manservant,' and was left a suit of apparel (LMA AM/FW 1710/89).
It is likely that he learned his craft with Nost.
His earliest recorded works date from 1720 and were sent, at a cost of £l 17s, by 'Waggon and car' to Gough Park (7).
In 1729 Manning moved into a property in Portugal Row next door to Catherine Nost and, from 1734, to Thomas Carter I. His premises were initially rated at £8, but his business must have expanded by 1737, when he had two properties in the street, rated at £IO and £12. He appears to have taken over the second premises from Andrew Carpenter, who died
that year. By 1744 he had taken over another property, with
tenants, in the street, renamed White Horse Street in 1737.
In 1735 Manning supplied a statue of Britannia to an insurance company in Westminster, one of the earliest recorded works in artificial stone produced in this country (5). Manning stood as a character witness in the trial of Mary Johnson, otherwise Sudley, otherwise Barker, on 5 December 1746, who was accused of the theft of a gold ring from a William Archer. Manning described himself as a 'Master Statuary of Hide-Park and testified that the defendant had 'lived in two houses of mine for these two years'. The properties were in 'White-horse street, just as you go down the hill' (POB 1674—1834, ref t17461205-24).
Manning died in 1747. An obituary describes him as 'an
ingenious statuary near Hyde Park Corner' (GM 1747, 545).
In his will, proved on 19 November, he left his stock in trade, utensils, chattels, books, plate and his house on the corner of White Horse Street to his wife Mary. Another 'little house' in White Horse Street was left jointly to his wife and his mother, Elizabeth, together with the lease of three houses and a stable in the same road. He mentions two brothers, Edward and Arnold, and his nephews, Thomas and John Manning (PROB 11/758/6).
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