Post under construction.
The lead at 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 life size terracotta was sold by Sotheby's in the late 80's early 90's if memory serves.
Prior to the terracotta River God appearing at Sotheby's, I had seen it in a garden in Marlborough.
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https://drawingmatter.org/the-temple-of-flora-stourhead-a-paradise-revisited/
This is an extract from Stourhead, Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited by Dudley Dodd pub. 2021.
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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A View of the Cascade &c in the Garden of Sr. Francis Dashwood Bart.
& of the Parish Church &c at West Wycombe in the County
of Bucks.
1757.
William Woolett
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1849-0328-56
see also
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1208-93
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.
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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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/
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Of tangential interest.
A River God
Terracotta Maquette by JJ Caffieri (1725 - 92).
1755
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
M.6-1992
Purchased with the Cunliffe, Bartlett and Friends' Jaffé
subscription Funds, with grants from the National Art Collections Fund, and the
Museums and Galleries Commission's Regional Fund administered by the Victoria
and Albert Museum, 1992
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The Grotto at Stourhead.
Grotto and River God's Cave, Stourhead Gardens, Stourton,
near Mere, Wiltshire
Top: Grotto plan Bottom: Grotto section.
Both idrawings by F M Piper
(1779). [from the 1982 guidebook).
Screen Grab Images below from - https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/22066107722/in/album-72157659387823772/lightbox/
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Barrington Hall, Essex. Some notes -
https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2020/03/408-barrington-of-hatfield-broad-oak.html
https://www.bulbeckfoundry.co.uk/page/statues-river-god/
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/river-god-300469
From at least the mid-nineteenth century, local sources record the figure of the River God “at the overflow of the lake,” confirming its connection to the estate’s waterways.
Essex Record Office, Essex Parish History, “Notes on Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak,” 1970, ref. T/P 446A/1.
John Shales Barrington's heir was his kinsman Sir Fitz William Barrington, 8th Bt. (d.1792), of Swainston (I.W.). Thereafter the estate again descended with the baronetcy until the death in 1832 of Sir FitzWilliam Barrington, 10th and last Bt., whose heirs were
William Lowndes of Chesham (Bucks.) and William Selby Lowndes of Whaddon Hall
(Bucks.), descendants of the above Anne Shales in the female line.
Little Barrington Hall Farm, Hatfield Forest, Bush End, Takeley, Essex, CM22 6NL. Built Heritage Survey
© Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited Nov 2022
PCA Report Number 15134 v1 9
4.13 In a partition of the estate made in 1836 William Lowndes received the northern division, including the manors of Hatfield Regis (Broad Oak), Barrington Hall, and Hatfield Priory, with lands totalling 1,374 a. and including Barrington Hall Farm.
William Selby Lowndes received the southern division, comprising 1,797 a. including Matching Barns and Pierce Williams farms.
Immediately after the partition of 1836 William Lowndes sold his share of the estate to Thomas Lowndes (d. 1840). Thomas Lowndes was succeeded by his sister's great-grandson George Alan Clayton, who took the name of Lowndes. G. A. Lowndes (d. 1904), was for 25 years president of the Essex Archaeological Society. His son and heir Major Alan H. W. Lowndes sold the Barrington Hall estate to Alfred H. Gosling in 1908. The house, with 33 a. of land, was conveyed by the Goslings in 1977 to the British Livestock Co., who in 1980 sold it to Contemporary Perfumers Ltd.
John Shales Barrington, who succeeded to the estate in 1734, soon afterwards built a new Barrington Hall, 1 km. north of the church, and enclosed it in a park. It is probable that the architect was John Sanderson (d. 1774), and the builder his cousin Joseph Sanderson (d. 1747). The main three-storeyed block of the house measured 110 ft. by 60 ft. and had a principal front to the south of nine bays, with a Corinthian portico from which a perron staircase descended on each side to the basement floor. The walls were of red brick, the architraves and embellishments of limestone ashlar. The ancillary buildings were concentrated in a lower wing on the east side of the house. The interior was fitted with carved fireplaces of stone and marble, one of which is said to have cost £700, richly moulded plasterwork, and mahogany doors. Henry Cheere, the sculptor, provided a stone staircase and a for both of which ironwork was supplied by John Wagg, the black smith.
When the house was well advanced John Shales Barrington 'on some dispute about tithes … or … on a matrimonial disappointment … gave up the design and retired to a house at Waltham Cross, where he passed a long life in obscurity.'
In 1771 Barrington Hall lay unfinished and neglected, and most of the furniture had been removed. SirJohn Barrington, 9th Bt., who succeeded to the estate in 1792, made some alterations to the house, but in 1809 it was again empty and still unfinished. By 1833, when Barrington Hall was for a short time reoccupied, the eastern wing and the perron stairs had been removed. When the estate was divided in 1836 the house was said to be in a good condition, but by 1847, after a further period of neglect, it had greatly deteriorated.
It was not permanently occupied until 1863, when G. A. Lowndes remodelled the house to the design of Edward Browning. He removed part of the west end, altered the south front in an asymmetrical 'Jacobean' style, and changed all the windows and the roof line. Many of the original fittings were retained.
The interior was modernized in 1956 and again in 1977.
The 18th-century park was laid out to the south of the house, with its main entrance from the south-west, by an avenue approached from Mill (now Feathers) Hill. Therewas an artificial lake near the house and an ornamental temple in the centre of the park.
After the remodelling of the house in 1863 some of the statuary and a capital from the 18th-century south front were used as garden ornaments, and a terrace was formed along the south front to reduce the apparent height of the basement storey.
By1875 a shorter entrance drive had been made from Dunmow Road, to the north-west providing access from the new Takeley railway station (Powell, et al. 1983).
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The Barringtons left Old Barrington Hall after the purchase of the Priory at Hatfield Broad Oak in 1564 (Essex Gardens Trust, 2003). The Old Barrington Hall stood on a moated site 2 km. north of Hatfield Broad Oak village and as cartographic evidence shows immediately to the south and east of Little Barrington Hall. This later house, (Little Barrington Hall) is thought to include older parts which are probably fragments of an earlier, larger building. The east range, which has a continuous jetty along one side, dates (stylistically) to the 16th century. marble table, for both of which ironwork was supplied by John Wagg, the blacksmith.
