Coade and the Gothic

 

The Huntington Gothic Candelabra.

From the set of ten originally made for the Gothic conservatory that Thomas Hopper (1776 - 1856) designed for Carlton House, the London residence of the George Prince Regent, later George IV (1762 - 1830).

Each Height: 208 cm Width: 44.5 cm Depth: 47 cm.

The torchères each held brass lamps with six burners and originally stood on black marble plinths.

Ordered by the Prince Regent from Coade & Sealy for the cast iron Gothic Conservatory at Carlton House, and delivered on 9 February 1811. 

The total cost for the set was £500. The bills in the Windsor archives show that the candelabra originally had black marble plinths, and held brass lamps with six burners each. 

Alison Kelly writes of the decoration for the conservatory by Coade and Sealy ‘In July of 1810. Some Statues were ready, “2 statues of ancient Kings and 2 do. Of Bishops and 1 statue of a Pilgrim for niches in the Conservatory.” They…seem reasonable at £96.12s.0d.

Demolished in 1827, the magnificent interior of the conservatory survives through illustrations and written accounts which include descriptions of the other Coade stone works it contained, depicting kings, bishops and a pilgrim as well as a central fountain with eight dragons. 

Following the demolition of Carlton House in 1827, they were installed in the coffee room at Windsor Castle in 1827, eight of the ten were gilded, and they were all fitted with new oil lamps. 

Of the ten original candelabra, six went to Leeds Castle following their purchase at Christie’s on 19 November 1970.

The torchères each held brass lamps with six burners and originally stood on black marble plinths.

One was sold at Christie’s in 1989, and bought for the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.’ (Item number NMW A 30042).

images here from - https://thehumblefabulist.com/tag/the-huntington-art-collections/

The Huntington Candelabra.

The Victoria and Albert Museum Coade Candelabra.

Very poor resolution photographs fro the website

I will attempt to obtain some better images in due courdr.

Bought from Christopher Gibbs, Ltd., for £1.500, by the Central Fund, in 1980.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8857/candelabrum-candelabrum-hopper-thomas/#object-details

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The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Gothic Candelabra.

Sold to the Fitzwilliam by Thomas Coulborn & Sons

https://www.coulborn.com/

Provenance - Collection of Sir Robert Gordon Cooke MP, Athelhampton House, Dorset.

All the images below from the website of Thomas Coulborn and Sons

https://www.coulborn.com/artworks/categories/9/1581-sold-to-the-fitzwilliam-museum-cambridge-regency-coade/

https://www.bada.org/object/regency-coade-stone-torchere-coade-sealy-designed-thomas-hopper-1776-1856

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The National Museum of Wales Coade Candelabra.

very poor snaps from -

https://museum.wales/collections/online/?field0=string&value0=Coade&field1=with_images&value1=1

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There was the version purchased at Bonham's London, Lots Road Saleroom by Peter Hone from the residue of the collection of Sylvia Adams in 1996.

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Pyne, W. H. Royal Residences, London, 1818, plates I, II.

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Literature.

W.H. Pyne, Royal Residences, London, 1818, plates I, II

One of the torchères is illustrated in Geoffrey de Bellaigue and Pat Kirkham, ‘George IV and the Furnishing of Windsor Castle’ in Furniture History: The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Volume VIII, 1972, p.1-34, pl.13B.

Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade’s Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, illustrated p.220

The Queen’s Gallery Carlton House: The Past Glories of George IV’s Palace, London, 1991, p.225, illus. back cover Buckingham Palace Exhibition Catalogue

Diane Bilbey and Marjorie Trusted, British Sculpture 1470- 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A 2002, p. 307, cat. no. 471

Celina Fox (ed.), London – World City, 1800-1840, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992 no. 279

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of Tangential Interest.

Pair of Coade stone Gothic Finials.

Sold recently by Arabesque Antiques

Pinnacles H 79 1/2" x W 23" x D 23" Stone Pedestals H 12" x W 17" x D 17'

signed and dated 'Coade London 1819'.

Decorated on all four sides with crockets and portrait heads, both terminating in large poppy finials, in very good condition and standing on matched composition stone pedestals.

https://www.arabesqueantiques.co.uk/artworks/9552-pair-of-very-large-coade-stone-gothic-pinnacles/

Some Coade Stone Church Monuments.

 

Essay in preparation.

The Memorial to Frances Brown, daughter in law of Lancelot "Capability" Brown in Coade stone at Parish Church of St Peter And St Paul, Fenstanton`. Cambridge.

 TheWife of Lancelot Brown [Jnr] Lord of the Manor and sister of Rose Fuller Esq of Rose Hill ... Sussex". She died  2 December 1792 aged 38. Couple had married in 1788 at Lausanne.

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St Mary's Church, Battersea.

The Monument to John Camden, (d. 1780), and his eldest daughter Elizabeth Neild, (d. 1791). 

 Signed by Coade Lambeth 1792.

James Neild (d.1814) goldsmith - son of James Nield of Knutsford, married, in 1778, the Elizabeth eldest daughter of John Camden of Battersea and had two sons and a daughter.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum version.

This Coade stone monument to Sir William Hillman, made by Coade and Sealy in 1800, was originally in the demolished church of St. James's, Hampstead Road, London.

Monument to Sir William Hillman (1740–93)

Commisioned bySir William Hillman’s sister, Elizabeth Walter.

The Kedermister Chapel, S Mary's Church Langley, Berkshire.

The Kedermister Chapel and its attached library, located within St. Mary’s Church in Langley, Berkshire, were established in the 1630s by Sir John Kedermister.

In 1788, Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bt, acquired the manor, and thus began a new dynasty, which lasted until the death of the last Lady Harvey in 1937. The first Sir Robert was Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1791 and his descendants provided further sheriffs in 1828 and 1900. They made the burial vault their own, and they used the chapel above for the display of family monuments. The earliest of these, for David and Elizabeth Harvey, is a Coade stone figure of a mourning woman and is dated 1791.

The screen separating the nave and the south chapel added by the Kedermister family is of Coade's artificial stone, was set up by Robert Bateson in 1792 from the designs of Henry Emlyn, who also designed the organ gallery and screen in St.George's Chapel, Windsor, which are built of the same material.

Emlyn's most notable work was the late-18th-century restoration of St George's Chapel (1785–1790), where he designed and supervised alterations including the choir screen in Coade stone, the organ case, the altar, and new stalls for the Royal Family, all crafted to harmonize seamlessly with the medieval Gothic structure.

William Palmer (1673 - 1739) and his son Benjamin Palmer fl 1712 - 78) - London Sculptors. The Late Roubiliac Type Socle.

 

The 1756 Monument to Arthur O'Keeffe .

In the Cloisters at Westminster Abbey.

Another bust which appears to have the early Roubiliac type socle.

The Monument is inscribed Palmer to the bottom right.

It seems the family home was in Dunbullog(e) in Co. Cork in Ireland (his brother Daniel owned a mill and estate there). 

https://okeefeclan.org/2020/castles/

It is possible his father was the Arthur O'Keeffe from Ballymaguirk co. Cork in Ireland who was admitted to Gray's Inn in London in 1682-1683. (The family motto is the same but his coat of arms is different to that mentioned above). Arthur the younger was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1738 and Gray's Inn in 1740.

The Inns were colleges for lawyers. He married Isabella Casburne, widow, at her house in Piccadilly 4th April 1738 by special licence. The marriage was recorded in the parish register of St James's Church, Westminster. 

He died childless - his will described him as of Bedford Row, London and his wife inherited his mansion and parklands at Bailey Park, Heathfield in Sussex. (now Heathfield Park) Isabella bequeathed all her property to her sister Mary Ann (who later married Arthur's cousin Cornelius O'Keeffe).

Bailey Park was sold in 1766 to Lt Gen. Elliot

 

Arthur was buried in the cloister on 3rd October 1756 and his wife on 5th October 1762 aged 70.

Excerpts from The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church of the Abbey of St Peter Westminster... - Page 401 Joseph Lemuel Chester · 1876

Page 403 Anstis O'Keeffe in the West Cloister. Mother of  Arthur O'Keeffe

The Will of Arthur O'Keefe.(O'Kyffe) of Bedford Row - PROB-11-826-140. a very short document where he appoints his wife Isabella (d.1762) sole heir and executor.

Isabella left Bailey Park to her sister Mary Ann.

Benjamin Palmer.

Sir William Harpur 

Portland Stone

Bedford

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-william-harpur-c-14961574-311031