Draft post in preparation.
Some notes and images of Langley Park, Loddon, Norfolk.
The Country Home of the Proctor Beauchamps until 1946.
Since 1946 Langley Park School.
I have touched on Langley previously in my blog but a recent request to put a piece together on the marble busts of Cromwell in the 18th Century inspired me to return to the subject.
Currently I have no decent photographs available to me, of the architectural detailing and the old photographs probably second or third generation are of too low a resolution to be certain of any attributions.
I have attempted to contact the school and hope to be able to visit and obtain some good photographs of my own sometime soon.
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There is a large cache of documents relating to the Proctor Beauchamps and Langley Park at Norfolk Archives which I have yet to access see -
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7c2bb8d3-79c8-46f8-9450-6e499cfd51cf
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For an excellent introduction to the subject of the Proctor Beauchamps and Langley see the very informative website of Nick Kingsley.
https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2022/03/509-beauchamp-later-beauchamp-proctor.html
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Reference code MC 3212/78
Title - Inventory and Valuation of Langley Park late the property of Sir Reginald W.P. Beauchamp, bt, decd.
1 Volume.
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Inventories of the goods of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor,
baronet.
Not yet accessed
This record is held by Royal Berkshire Archives - Reference: D/EE/E43/1-3
Inventories
of the goods of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, baronet
At his houses at White Hart Lane, Tottenham, Middlesex, 1773, and Berkeley Square, London,
1773, 1785
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Four Busts (not by Roubiliac) at Langley.
The Four busts mentioned In A General
History of the County of Norfolk, edited by John Chambers, pub. 1829.
On page 845 - in the entry on Langley park it refers to
"Four colossal busts of William II,
George I, Hampden, and Oliver Cromwell - Roubiliac on termes of curious
Alabaster Fiorito Marble" in the Central Division of the Garden Gallery".
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Langley Park.
Anonymous after the addition of the Towers.
c.1770.
Image below from -
https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2022/03/509-beauchamp-later-beauchamp-proctor.html
The Beauchamp-Proctor Family and Friends at Langley Park,
Norfolk.
John Wootton (c.1682–1764).
1749
H 152.7 x W 199.7 cm
Norfolk Museums Service.
Image courtesy Art UK website.
The corner towers have yet to be added.
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Plan of the Ground Floor of Langley Park
Adapted from a plan drawn in 1830.
Drawn and provided by Robert Roberts for which I am very grateful.
The John Cheere Lead Statues of Ceres and Bacchus clearly visible in the Screen Niches.
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Langley Park.
The Saloon.
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The East Gallery with the Tower room beyond.
Photograph presumed c. 1900.
.jpg)
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101306509-langley-park-school-langley-with-hardley/photos/23829
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The Saloon.
The Following Photograph is probably late 19th Century.
I am very grateful to Robert Roberts for providing it.
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Plaster Relief Panel of the Abduction of Helen of Troy by Paris.
After Guido Reni (original now in the Louvre).
Anonymous Engraving.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0711-622
British Museum.
see also - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_U-3-220
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Hercules Battling Centaurs.
Langley Park.
The Drawing Room.
probably Late 19th Century/ early 20th century.
Photo courtesy Robert Roberts.
The two busts shown indistinctly to the right of the chimneypiece.
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The Music Room.
Looking through to the Library.
From Robert Roberts.
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The Library.
Note the Bust of Alexander Pope within the central arch of the Venetian Window.
and the stained glass panel below probably one of those in the 1946 sale.
Another Cheere type chimneypiece.
This chimneypiece was stolen in the early 2000's and has been placed with a carved wooden model based on the chimneypiece in the saloon.
Images and info from Robert Roberts.
Note also the pair of classical busts on top of and the bust of Alexander Pope in the tympanum of the Venetian window. Possibly supplied by John Cheere at the same time as the lead statues in the niches on the South Front Pavilions.
Currently I don't have any good images of any of the plasterwork at Langley.
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Juno and the Peacock.
Bacchus and Ariadne.
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The Dining Room.
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The Dining Room Chimneypiece.
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Looking South along the Circular Passage.
Was it remodelled??
Photograph very kindly provided by Elvie Herd of the Loddon Local History Society.
my guess is that the lower photograph shows the Circular Corridor before remodelling.
Reference code MC 3212/78
Title - Inventory and Valuation of Langley Park late the
property of Sir Reginald W.P. Beauchamp, bt, decd.
1 Volume.
The Sale by Wroxham auctioneers J. R. E. Draper held at Langley Hall on 8th April 1946.
On the instructions of Mrs S.G.H.M. Beauchamp. This would be Sheila Ginerva Hilda Mary Beauchamp, the daughter and heiress of Sir Reginald W. Proctor-Beauchamp, 5th Bt.
After Sir Reginald's death, while his brother inherited the title, much of the wealth and such like was inherited by his aforementioned daughter.
Shortly after this auction many of the finer paintings and
drawings were sold at Christie's on Friday 31st May 1946 in London.
I am very grateful to Robert Roberts for supplying this information.
143. Oriental Jar and Cover
144. Large Oriental Mug
145. Three Oriental shell shaped Dishes
146. “ Oddfellow’s ” Jug
147. Six Oriental Vases and 2 Cups
148. Pair 18-in. Royal Worcester Vases
149. White Marble work Basket
150. Pair Pottery Dolphins and Shell Stands
151. Pair Large Metal Jugs
152. Model Cannon on Oak 1-drawer Stand
153. French Clock on Twist Pillars by Valery,
Paris
154. Black Marble Clock with Bronze Figures
155. Large Black Marble Clock by Walker, London
156. Pair Inlaid Oriental Metal Vases
157. Large Pottery Vase with coloured Battle
Scene and Grecian design surround
158. Chess Men in Glass Case
159. Pottery Vase and Tea Pot
160. Pair Fine Terrestrial and Celestial
Globes, 1799, on Hepplewhite Stand with Compass Base
161. Fine French Gilt and White carved Framed
Suite covered in Flowered Tapestry, and comprising four lyre back Chairs, four
Padded Back Chairs, Four Fauteuils and Settee (see Illustration)
162. Large oval Gilt Plant Stand
163. Pair Green Decorated Adam Side Table on
Claw Feet and with red mottled Marble tops
164. Pair semi-circular Ditto
165. Large circular Georgian Mahogany Pillar
Breakfast Table
166. Pair 26-in. Bronze Vases with Figure
ornament
167. 20-in. Bronze Figure “ En Trioni ”
168. Bronze Figure “Arabe En Marche ”
169. Set of 6 Gilt Elbow Chairs on shaped legs
and covered in Green Tapestry
170. Large White Marble Bust on mottled Marble
Pillar
171. Ditto
172. Oil Painting---Sir W. Proctor by E. Cooper
173. Oil Painting---Groom and Hounds by E.
Cooper
174. Large Bronze Head
175. Three Ivory Figures
176. Large Mahogany Carved Pedestal
177. Brass
Candelabra, 4 Candlesticks, Inkstand
178. Pair Ivory and
Feather Fans
179. 2-ft. 7-in.
Green decorated Adam Side Table on Paw Feet and with Marble Top
180. Pair Brass
Candlesticks
181. Carved wood
Figures
182. Bronze Grecian
Figure
183. Dresden Metal
Figure---Monkey Musician with flower decoration
184. 2-ft. 7-in.
Green decorated Adam marble top Table on Paw Feet
185. Fine Mahogany
Cabinet in Chinese Chippendale style 2-ft. 4-ins. Wide, 6-ft. 3-ins. High (see
illustration)
186. Large Blue Delft 2 Handled Vase
187. Large Metal
Pedestal
188. Adams style
Gilt Suite of 4 oval back Chairs and 2 Settees, circa 1780 (see illustration)
189. White Marble
Bust on Marble Pedestal
190. Ditto
191. Large Oil
Painting---Horse and Dog
192. Water Colour
Drawing---Lady
193. Pair Fine
Georgian Mahogany framed Bergere Chairs with cushions in Leather
194. Set of 6
Mahogany Hepplewhite Design Chairs
195. Fine Large
Mahogany Dining Table with 6 Leaves extending to 17-ft.
196. Set of 4
finely carved Chippendale Chairs with shaped legs and decorated Red and Gilt
197. Fine Red and
Gilt Picture Panel Vienna Vase
198. Large Brass
Telescope on tripod
199. Gyroscope in
Case
200. Sheraton Case
Musical Time-Beater
201. Pair of
magnificently carved Gilt Brackets, circa 1765 (see illustration)
202. Very Fine
carved Mahogany Chippendale Bookcase Cabinet with broken pediment, Mirror
Doors, fall front centre and cupboard base, circa 1750 (see illustration)
203. Richly carved
Mahogany Side Table with white marble top, on shaped and scroll toed Legs ;
carving of the Egg and Tongue, shell and Leaf Style, circa 1740 7-ft. X 3-in.
(see illustration)
204. Oil Portrait
of Lady by E. Walker
205. Oil
Painting---White Horse and Donkey by J Blazeby 1858
206. Oil
Painting---2 Horses by Blazeby
207. Small Oil
Portrait of Gentleman
208. Four Prints
209. Six Early
Mezzotints
210. Fine 21-in.
Blue Nankin Plate
211. Coloured
Oriental Plate with Bird Design 25-ins.
212. Coalport Tea
and Coffee Ware, Indian Tree Design, 76 pieces
213. Fine Gilt Lyre
Support Table with very finely decorated Marble Top
214. Pair 24-in.
Coloured Oriental Vases (1 def.)
215. Pair 3-ft.
Oriental Bronze Candle Holders
216. Three Fine
Oriental Coloured Vases and Covers with raised flowers, 14-ins. High (1 Def.)
217. Pair 18-in.
Coloured Oriental Vases
218. Pair Very Fine
Blue and White Oriental Vases, 3-ft. 3-ins.
219. Fine 22-in.
Blue Oriental Jardiniere on Oak Stand
220. Bronze Figure
221. Bronze Figure
222. Pair 16-in.
Coloured Oriental Vase and Covers (def.)
223. Pair 2-ft.
8-in. French Buhl Cabinets with White Marble Tops
224. Fine 24-in.
Coloured Oriental Vase and Cover
225. Ditto (def.)
226. Pair Fine
Large Ormulu 2-light Candelsticks with urn shaped tops (see illustration)
227. Various
Oriental Plates, etc. (def.)
228. 32 Gramophone
Records
229. PYE Portable
Radio Set
230. Copper Pot
Pewter Freezer
231. Two Copper
Jugs
232. Large
Portuguese Dish
233. Twelve various
Carafes and Decanters
234. Five various
Glass Jugs
235. Three Cake
Stands
236. Large Blue
Delft Jar and Cover on Stand
237. Eight Large
Tumblers
238. Eighteen Ice
Plates
239. Glass Bowl and
Dish
240. Four Pottery
Vases
241. Various Blue
Oriental Cups and Covers, etc.
242. Copper and
Gilt Urn
243. Copper Bowl
and Pottery Pedestal
244. Fifteen
Liqueur Glasses
245. Thirteen
Engraved Wine Glasses
246. Six Wine
Glasses
247. Four Tumblers
and 2 Wine Glasses
248. Two Firing
Glasses and 5 Custard Glasses
249. Four Large
Glasses
250. Thirteen
Finger Bowls
251. Twenty-one
large Engraved Tumblers
252. Green
decorated Adam Side Table with Marble Top and Paw feet
253. Large Persian
Metal Bowl
254. Oriental
Bronze Vase
255. Bronze Bust
(Linedo)
256. Oriental
Bronze Vase and Cover
257. Brass Brazier,
Chamber Candlestick, etc.
258. Pottery Tea
Pot and Bell
259. Set Brass
Weights
260. Eight pieces
Red Pottery
261. Small Lacquer
Cabinet and Tea Caddy
262. Three Bronze
Ornaments
263. Two Plaster
Figures
264. Lacquer Tea
Chest
265. Opium Pipe and
Metal Elephant
266. Oriental
Mirror and 2 Bronze Ornaments
267. Two Metal and
1 Marble Columns
268. Two-fold
Needlework Screen
269. Copper Urn
270. Metal Dish
Cover and Copper Breakfast Heater
271. Two Mahogany
Cases
272. Leather Mail
Bag
273. Periscope
274. Two China
Electric Lamps
275. Pair Pottery
raised figure Jardinieres
276. Pair 3-ft.
1-in. Mahogany Empire Bookcases with Sphinx Heads and Feet ornamentation264. Lacquer Tea Chest
265. Opium Pipe and
Metal Elephant
266. Oriental
Mirror and 2 Bronze Ornaments
267. Two Metal and
1 Marble Columns
268. Two-fold
Needlework Screen
269. Copper Urn
270. Metal Dish
Cover and Copper Breakfast Heater
271. Two Mahogany
Cases
272. Leather Mail
Bag
273. Periscope
274. Two China
Electric Lamps
275. Pair Pottery
raised figure Jardinieres
276. Pair 3-ft. 1-in. Mahogany Empire Bookcases with Sphinx Heads and Feet ornamentation
277. Small Easy Chair
278. Green Glass
Liqueur Set---14 pieces
279. Tall Blue
Delft Base
280. Off Blue
Oriental Ware
281. Pair 21-in.
Satsuma Vases
282. Eleven Red
ground Minton Plates
283. Mahogany
1-drawer Side Table
284. Wax Bust
285. Pair Oriental
Bases
286. Three Ditto
287. 18-in.
Oriental Vase
288. Set of 3
Billiard Balls
289. Six Blue
Nankin Octagonal Plates
290. Pair Green
Pottery Vases
291. Jardiniere
292. Pair Fine
Bronze Heads
293. Mahogany
Dinner Wagon
294. Pair 14-in.
Oriental Vases
295. Oriental Bowl
with Figure Supports
296. Three Oriental
Figures
297. Six Oriental
Figures
298. Antique
Mahogany 3-ft. 3-in. Washstand
299. Large Coloured
Oriental Bowl (def.)
300. Antique
Mahogany 3-drawer Chest
301. Oak 2-ft.
5-in. Bureau
302. Antique Oak
Linen Press
303. Hair Mattress
304. 2-ft. 5-in.
Carved Oak Side Table with marble top
305.
306.
307. Two Water
Colours
308. Three Ditto
309. Mahogany
Georgian 2-drawer Side Table
310. Mattress and
Iron Protector
311. Fine Coloured Stained Glass Window 4-ft. By 4-ft. 11-ins. (Library Window?)
312. Very Fine
Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase with 4 trellis doors and 3 Cupboards under. 9-ft.
313. Green
decorated Adam Side Table with Marble top and paw feet, 5-ft. 6-ins.
314. Suite of 56
Engraved Wine Glasses
315. Bronze Head on
Marble Pillar
316. Mahogany Elbow
Chair
317. 10-ft. 6-in.
Oak Bookcase with trellis doors
318. Two large Deal
black-out Boards
319. Fine Stained
Glass Window, 4-ft. 11-ins. By 4-ft. (Library window?).
320. Large Adam’s Style Wall Mirror with oval Oil Panel
321. Mottled Stone Vase
322. 5-ft. Fine
Marble Figure of Urania on 2-ft. 5-in. Square Pedestal
323. White Marble
Figure, “Cicero,” and Pedestal
324. Pair very
large Adam’s Design Wall Mirrors
325. Stone Figure,
Young Bacchus on Square Pedestal
326. Large Marble
Vase with Leopard Handles and ornamented Pedestal
327. 5-ft. 10-in.
Carved Oak Bookcase
328. Pair 4-ft.
3-in. Finely carved Adam Gilt semi-circular Side Tables with red mottled marble
tops
329. 4-ft. 3-in. Green decorated Adam Side Table with mottled marble top and paw feet
330. Marble Bust of
Lady, on mottled Pedestal
331. Stone Bust on
mottled Pedestal
332. Small Marble
Bust on fine inlaid key pattern Marble Pedestal
333. Plaster
Bust---Lady
334. Marble
Bust---Faun, on Marble Pedestal
335. Small White
Bust on Ornamental Pedestal
336. Marble Bust of
Lady, on coloured Pedestal
337. Small Stone
Head of a Faun
338. Pair Tall
mottled Marble Pedestals
339. Head of Lady
in Stone
340. Fine inlaid
key pattern Marble Pedestal
341. Marble Head of
a Faun
342. Large Marble
Bust of a Lady
343. Marble Bust
344. Red Mottled
Marble Pedestal
345. Oval Marble
Bath 2-ft. 3-ins.
346. Plaster Model
of Jerusalem in Case
347. White and
Mottled Marble Bust of Lady
348. Large Marble
Bust
349. Pair Tall
Green and Buff Marble Pedestals
350. 4-ft. Marble
Figure---Lady
351. Pair 2-ft.
6-in. Black Plaster Vases
352. Stone
Bust---Lucius Verus as a Youth
353. Fine Marble
and Stone Pedestal with Medallion and Festoon Panels
354. Marble Bust of
Lady, on mottled Pedestal
355. Bronze Incense
Burner on Tripod and Pedestal
356. Early
Engraving after Van Dyck
357. Three Portrait
Prints
358. Five
Engravings in Oak Frames
359. Engraving---Earl
of Albemarle
360. Mezzotint---Sir
A. Wodehouse and 4 others
361. Engraving---William,
Lord Radstock and 2 others
362. Antique
Pedimeter
363. Three Portrait
Engravings
364. Three large
Engravings---Waterloo Scene
365. Six Engravings
366. Large
Engraving---Ramsgate 1854 and 1 other
367. Various French
Engravings
368. Pair Large
Prints---Queen Victoria
369. Plaster Bust
370. Marble Bust
Gordianus Africanus
371. Various Prints
372. Various
Pictures
373. Golf Clubs,
etc.
374. Three Shields,
Mirror and Bedroom Chair
375. Mahogany Plate
Tray
376. Twelve Copper
Jelly Moulds
377. Fourteen Ditto
378. Medicine
Cupboard
379. Two Iron
Fenders
380. Sundry Silver
top Bottles, etc.
381.
382. Early Oil
Portrait---Gentleman with White Collar
383. Eight various
Pictures
384. Tray various
Ornaments and Bells, etc.
385. Large Oil
Painting of Lady
386. Bronze Group
on marble base
387. Two Lots Fire
Steels
388. Oak Stair Rods
and Brass Ditto
389. Two Lots Fire
Steels
390. Ditto
391. Two Lots Fire
Steels
392. 6-ft. 4-in.
Deal Box Chest
393. Large Trunk
394. Ten Coloured
Prints
395. Bedspread
396. Sundries
397. Toilet Covers
398. Ditto
399. Sundries
400. Ditto
401. Oriental
Dress, etc.
402. Sundry Covers
403. Sundries
404. Two Cushions
405. Two
Counterpanes
406. Two Ditto
407. Two Oriental
Silk Wall Panels and 3 Scrolls
408. Oak Mule Chest
409. Mahogany
Georgian Bookcase
410. Antique
Mahogany Wall Shelf
411. Marble Figure
412. Pair Fine
Marble Figures---Children with Bird and Nest
413. Two Mahogany
Easels
414. Two Electric
Table Lamps and Shades
415. Sundry Coat
Hangers and Brass Table Clips
416. Sixteen
various China Candlesticks
417. 417---513. Various well bound and
Miscellaneous Books.
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Charles Stanley (1703 - 61) and the Plasterwork at Langley Park.
see my post - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2021/02/marble-bust-by-charles-stanley-of-mary.html
Brief Biography.
https://gunnis.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2555
Charles Stanley - List of Works.
Charles, Lord Maynard (†1742) and his ancestors Funerary Monument 1746 , Little
Easton, Essex
A bust, perhaps of Mary Okeover, Bust , c1745, Okeover
Hall, Staffs.
Humphrey Smith -The Funerary Monument, 1743, Ely Cathedral,
Cambs.
Several Chimneypiece c.1745, Okeover Hall, Staffs.
Pediment ornaments - Architectural Sculpture, 1746, Okeover
Hall, Staffs
Chimneypiece, 1746 , Okeover
Hall, Staffs
Thomas Maynard. The Funerary Monument, 1742, Hoxne, Suffolk.
A Danish-born sculptor and stuccoist, he spent two decades
working in England. Stanley was born in Copenhagen on 12 December 1703 to an
English father and a Danish mother. He was apprenticed in 1718 to the Danish
court sculptor Johann Adam Sturmberg (1683-1741), who entrusted care of the
young apprentice to one of his assistants, Peter Scheemakers. Stanley worked
under Sturmberg on the elaborate stuccowork in Fredensborg Castle, 1720-22, and
on two angels at the cornice of Sturmberg’s monument to the statesman, Otto
Krabbe, (†1719) in Roskilde Cathedral.
After completing his apprenticeship Stanley visited Germany
and Holland before coming to London in 1727, where he spent a year as an
assistant to Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux at their Millbank workshop. When
Scheemakers went to Rome in 1728, Stanley also considered making the journey
south, but he decided instead to remain in London when he received a lucrative
commission from Lord Wilmington to provide sumptuous stucco decorations in the
state bedrooms at Compton Place, near Eastbourne. Among the ornaments provided
for Wilmington was a ceiling panel with a characterised medallion portrait of
the architect Colen Campbell (Whinney 1988, 255, repr).
On 21 May 1730 he married Mrs Anne Allen, the daughter of
his landlord at Eastbourne, Sussex, where he lived whilst working on plaster
ceilings at Compton Place. She died five years later and a second marriage took
place on 2 August 1737 to Magdalene Margrethe Lindemann, the sister of the
German chaplain to the Court of St James. The couple had a son, Carl Frederick
Stanley (c1738-1813), who trained as a sculptor with his father and later had a
successful career in Denmark, where he became a professor at the Copenhagen
Academy.
Shortly after 1730 Stanley set up independently as a
sculptor and plasterer in London, advised by Scheemakers, who had recently
returned from Rome. A stream of decorative commissions and a few for sculpture
followed. Working principally with the plasterer, Thomas Roberts of Oxford, he
provided rich stucco ceilings at Langley Park, Norfolk (1740), the Radcliffe
Camera (1744), Okeover Park, Staffs (c1745), Kirtlington Park, Oxon (c1745) and
probably a number of other houses. In 1738, whilst living in the parish of St
John the Evangelist, Westminster, ‘Charles Stanley … plasterer’ took an
apprentice, John Dauson, at a fee of £10 (Apprenticeship Tax Roll index).
Stanley was responsible for two major monuments for the
aristocratic Maynard family, who had large estates in Suffolk and Essex. The
towering memorial to Thomas Maynard has a life-size standing effigy of Maynard
in vigorous classical draperies, his left arm resting on an urn, while his
right hand holds a book. His head recalls Scheemakers’s work and on the
pedestal is a large relief (1). The success of this commission led to a second,
the monument to Charles, Lord Maynard and his ancestors (3). It also has a
standing effigy garbed all’antica and grouped around him are three busts, three
portrait medallions and a weeping putto. On the pedestal below is a fine
high-relief tablet of three Cardinal and Christian Virtues, each attended by
lively cherubs. Lord Maynard’s response to the sculptor’s work was expressed in
an undated letter sent to Conyers Middleton: ‘I can’t say but I place a good
deal of confidence in him’ (Maynard /Middleton). Around 1744 Stanley also
carved, though he did not sign, the monument in Ely Cathedral to Humphrey
Smith, which has a naturalistic portrait bust of a heavy middle-aged subject,
in a foliate oval frame, attended by a weary, standing cherub (2).
In the summer of 1746 he accepted an invitation from Frederick V to return to Copenhagen as court sculptor, a post he held until his death. He departed hastily for Denmark leaving his affairs in a confused state.
Letters to Leeke Okeover from Joseph Sanderson, who was responsible for
building work at Okeover, relate that Stanley left ‘without settling with
several of his acquaintances’ and that he had failed to show Sanderson a bust,
a chimneypiece (4, 6) and a gilt picture frame with ribbon and flowers, all
prepared for Okeover (Sanderson/Okeover, 25.10.1746). A later letter adopted a
more philosophical tone: ‘One thing we must allow him [Stanley], is your
ceiling is well done and cheap’ (Sanderson/Okeover, 9 December 1746).
Soon after returning to Copenhagen Stanley began work on the
elegant marble group, Vertumnus, Pomona and Cupid, c1749, derived from
Delvaux’s group for Wanstead (Copenhagen Stat Museum). When the Royal Danish
Academy of Arts was founded in Copenhagen in 1752 he was appointed professor of
sculpture. In his later years he continued to produce sculpture inspired by
classical mythology. He was also responsible for a number of monuments.
Stanley had many skills. Whilst in England he probably
become acquainted with the novelist Henry Fielding, a number of whose works he
subsequently translated into Danish. In addition to his literary activities,
Stanley composed various pieces of music including an oratorio. He also became
a director of the Copenhagen porcelain factory.
IR
Literary References: Buesching 1754-7, I, 527, II, 193-9,
III, 193-9; Anecdotes 1937, 144; Esdaile 1937, 348-53, 608-11; Gunnis 1968,
365-6; Beard 1981, 285; Hare 1990, 144; Grove 29, 540-1 (DBL)
Archival References: GPC ( transcribed letters from Joseph
Sanderson to Leake Okeover, 1745-46)
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John Soane and Langley.
The works of Soane for Thomas Beauchamp could form an independent post
I will limit myself here
see https://collections.soane.org/drawings
The Chedgrave Gate.
Two alternative designs for an entrance gateway, 8 September
1784.
Inscribed Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor Bart, The Archivolt to be in 5
Pieces of Stone / as shown by the dotted lines, (on plinths) TOUJOURS FIDELE
and dimensions given
Signed and dated August 1790.
The Hounds have been described as originally of Coade Stone? I suspect this is a mistake and refers to the oval Coade patterae on either side of the arch -
the Greyhounds were carved by James Nelson (fl. 1769? d. 1811). see Biog Dictionary British sculptors pub Yale 2009.
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Langley - Park Drawings of the Lodges on the Chedgrave Gate in the Soane Museum.
https://collections.soane.org/OBJECT1899
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For Thomas Beauchamp Bart / Two Designs for the Entrance into Langley Park / No 1, The Elevation, The Plan, No 2, The Elevation, The Plan
Signed and dated.
J. Soane Archt. Margaret Street, Sepr 8th 1784.
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