Supposedly by Jamé Verhych (sometimes Jamé Derhijck).
Here suggested as possibly modelled by Roubiliac and cast by John Cheere.
Of his five known apprentices and assistants, two later started independent businesses. James Hoskins, who was taken apprentice by Cheere in 1747, became ‘moulder and caster in plaster’ at the newly founded Royal Academy in 1769 and in 1774 formed a partnership with another former apprentice, Benjamin Grant. They supplied plaster casts to the firm of Wedgwood and Bentley.
The others, of whom nothing is known, were John Fulford, Richard
Breach and John Candy, all listed as Cheere’s apprentices in the London Evening
Post on 10-12 December 1751 when they testified to the efficacy of a cure for
William Collins’s ulcerous leg.
JDCW was the Elder son of the Revd Hill Dawe Wickham M.A. of Horsington, Somerset
Wickham, James Douglas Clephane, 1son. Hill Dawe, of Frome,
Somerset, arm. EXETER COLL. Oxford matric. 14 Jun, 1859, aged 19;
B.A.
1864, rector of Cucklington, Somerset, 1867-71,
Harrow-on-the-Hill,
1871-3, and (patron and) rector of Horsington 1875.
The birth of Alice Matilda Neal was registered 1848/Q3 Marylebone.
The marriage of James Douglas C Wickham to Alice Matilda Neal was registered 1877/Q2 Marylebone. Daughter of William and Elizabeth Neal of Kingsdon
In the 1901 census at 11 Edward Street, Bath: Mary E Wickham, aged56, unmarried, living on own means, born at Frome (Som), James D C Wickham, aged 60, married, brother, clergyman Church of England retired, born at Frome, Alice M Wickham, aged 52, married, sister in law, born in London, and three servants.
The death of Alice M Wickham, aged 75, was registered
1924/Q1 Bath.
The death of James Douglas Clephane Wickham, aged 90, was registered 1931/Q2 Bath. From the burial register: James Douglas buried on 13 Apr 1931.
Buried Lansdown Cemetery Bath
see - Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Volume 20
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William Henry Salmon MD. (presumably d. 1763).
Salmon is a common Somerset surname it is difficult to disentangle the Salmon family relationships
For the Holcombe Salmons see -
https://archive.org/details/recordsbyspadete00wick/mode/2up?q=Salmon
The information below from -
The privately printed Salmon Chronicles by H J D Salmon pub 1947 - available online -
https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006114.pdf
From Somersetshire Records.
History of Somerset VHC.
Vol ii 380 "Amongst the most vigorous mining adventurers in Stratton-on-Fosse and vicinity during the early Seventeenth century were various members of the Long and Salmon families especially Willm Long and John Salmon the elder better known locally as Gentleman Salmon, a son of Henry Salmon."
Vol ii 382 ''About the year 1673 Mr. Trowbridge granted a licence to William Salmon, Samuel Salmon and Tho mas Perkins to work coal-mines in his lands at Holcombe."
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William Henry Salmon and Holcombe.
The following from - With Spade and Terrier: by JDC Wickham
In 1664 it is recorded in a deed by which John Salmon is put
into possession of Holcombe Farm on payment of a fine of £377 that all the land
in question situated in Holcombe and Kilmersdon was heretofore in the
occupation of one Arthur Hippsley deceased.
Hugh Fortesque, of
Filleigh, Devon, who sat in Parliament all through the reign of William III.
He sold his property at Croscombe and Holcombe, having no
children to succeed to the title. The Holcombe property, which was all
concentrated in his hands, was bought in 1734, by W. H. Salmon, originally of
Stratton and Chilcompton.
The Salmon family had been at Holcombe from 1630 to 1881. Members of the family had lived at Stratton (0n the Fosse) in still earlier days. Holcombe old church has several tablets to the memory of Salmons of Holcombe.
Their pedigree is as follows : — John Salmon, born 1630, died 1711. (Gentleman) John Salmon, of Oriel College, Oxford, his son, who died 1714, leaving a son, William Henry Salmon, called Dr. Salmon. He married Mary Tooker, of Norton Hall, and bought the Manor of Holcombe in 1734.
He had three children: John, Captain of Somerset Militia, died 1790 ; James, of Writhlington, buried 1772, who married Bridget Eyre, of New Sarum; Mary, married Philip Dart, Rector of Stratton. James had a son, James Eyre Salmon, who married a daughter of Frances Whalley, and had a daughter, Bridget Bingley Salmon. This James Eyre Salmon died in 1881, and his daughter fourteen years later.
He left the Manor to the
writer and his heirs (JDC Wickham).
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The Monuments in Holcombe Old Church, Somerset.
Per Rev. D Ibbotson of Stratton (on the Fosse).
"Sacred to the memory of John Salmon gent born 1630, and died at Writhlington House in this county Feb 1711 in the 82nd year of his age and was buried in the church of that parish adjoining the remains of various members of his family.
His ancestors having borne the patronimic of Dei Sancto Alemonds until it became anglicized . . . "
Also Revd John Salmon eldest son of John Salmon and Bridget his wife Lord of the Manor of Writhlington. Died at Oxford August 1714.
Also James Salmon, Lord of the Manor of Writhlington, 3rd youngest son of the said John Salmon. Died October 1772.
William Henry Salmon MD, Lord of this Manor died at Holcombe House Sepr 1756 second son of John Salmon Lord of the Manor of Writhlington.
Also Mary wife of Rev Philip Dart Rector of Stratton on Fosse and daughter of William Henry Salmon. Died February 1774.
Also John Salmon Captain in the British Army and Lord of the Manor of Writhlington and Holcombe, eldest son of William Henry Salmon and Mary his wife. Died February 1790.
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) was the youngest son of George II (1783-1760). He is best remembered for suppressing The Jacobite Rebellion, an attempt by the Catholic Stuarts of Scotland to regain the British throne. The Rebellion culminated in the Battle of Culloden, 1746, with a British victory against the Highlanders.
Prince William, otherwise known as ‘Butcher Cumberland’ by his Tory opponents or ‘Sweet William’ by his Whig supporters.
Inscribed on the socle at the front: REPUBLICA
SERVATA/MDCCXLVI
(In the service of the Republic/ 1746).
Notes below from the V and A files the italics are minePreviously at Lowther Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland from an unrecorded date until its purchase by Cooper & Adams, 41 James Street, London, from the Castle sale in 1947.
Noted in departmental records to have been erroneously catalogued as George Ill, the bust may possibly be identified as that included in the classical and other sculptures auctioned on the third day's sale held on 30 April 1947: lot 2379 was a 'bronzed compo bust George Ill, 26 in. high', sold together with a marble model of a hand; the height of 26 inches matches the height of the present piece with it's socle.
Purchased by the V and A Museum from Cooper & Adams in
1947 for E50.
Comparisons with contemporary commemorative medals show Cumberland with similar features
(see Medallic Illustrations, pls. CLXVII and CLXVIII).
In 1971 Margaret Whinney catalogued this bust as anonymous, 'Though it has some affinity to works by John Cheere, it would be rash to suggest that he was the sculptor' (Whinney 1971, p. 94).
The recent attribution came about in 1976 with correspondence between Anthony Radcliffe and General R.H. Whitworth concerning an identical bust at Belton House, Lincolnshire.
General Whitworth wrote, 'The bust is exactly similar to a lead one belonging to Lord Brownlow at Belton and his is certainly by Sir Henry Cheere.
In the Cust family records is written "A leaden bust of William, Duke Of Cumberland, the victor at Culloden executed by C is still at Belton House.
Sir John cust wrote from Marlborough street to Lord Tyrconell on 7th November 1747 and says he had paid Cheere €9 9 0, due by his uncle, for the Duke's bust.
This seems conclusive that it was executed by Cheere soon after Culloden.
I say Executed but not sculpted.
Mr Skipman at Belton House gave me this information from the family records' (letter 2 February 1976).
Anthony Radcliffe noted that although the particular Cheere responsible for the bust is not specified, it is likely to have been produced by Henry Cheere, 'since John is not known as a portrait sculptor, and it was Henry who was to execute in 1770 the lead equestrian statue of the Duke for Cavendish Square.
Furthermore, Henry Cheere executed in 1754 the monument to Viscount Tyrconnell in Belton Church. It is not impossible, however, that the bust was cast in the yard of John Cheere' (departmental records).
However more recently Moira Fulton has pointed out that John
Cheere did on occasion execute portrait busts, for example a gilt lead bust of
the Duke of Argyll (should be Atholl) in 1743, on display at Blair Castle; Cheere charged 7
guineas for it, plus 2 guineas for gold bronzing it (Blair Castle Charter Room,
Bundle' 55).
The similarity in price suggests that possibly John Cheere modelled
the present piece (personal communication from Moira Fulton, February 2002).
John Cheere also probably collaborated with his brother Henry to make the lead equestrian statue of the Duke of Cumberland in Cavendish Square (Webb 1958, p. 278). (We are grateful to Moira Fulton for her comments on this).
A reduced lead version of the bust was with the dealer Alfred Spero in October 1952 (noted by Terence Hodgkinson [q.v.] in departmental records). A small lead bust of the same subject attributed to
Cheere (h. 21 cm), was exhibited at Trinity Fine Arts 31 May -20 June 1990 no 19 and may be identical with the bust noted with Spero by Hodgkinson in 1952.
The bust was made for Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) and
delivered to Belton in 1747 where it was displayed in the Marble Hall,
according to the 1754 Tyrconnel Inventory. A letter from Cust to Tyrconnel
dated 7 November 1747 reveals that Cheere demanded an extra six shillings for
the bust:
‘I was at Cheer’s the Statuary this morning who tells me
that he sent the Duke’s Bust to your Lordship by this weeks carrier. I have
therefore paid him the nine guineas but he made an extraordinary demand of six
shillings for the packing case which I woud fain have had him remit but cou’d
not prevail’. (Records of the Cust Family, p.207)
Attributed by Sotheby's to Henry Cheere.
Sir Henry Cheere c.1740
Lead bust; on a later ebonised wood square socle.
It would seem to follow that as the Sotheby bust is the only version of this bust so far to appear, that the busts of Addison by John Cheere, which were much reproduced first by Cheere, and then in three different sizes by Harris of the Strand and subsequently in basalt by Wedgwood and again in the early 19th century by Shout of Holborn are the standard three dimensional portrait of Addison.
