The Monument to the actor James Quin (1693 - 1766).
Inscribed by Thomas King.
Quin retired to Bath and spent his last fifteen years lodging in the house of Mrs Simpson at 3, Pierrepont Street. Quin was fond of the city, often referring to it as 'a fine slope to the grave'.
I suspect that the relief was adapted from the mezzotint engraving by Faber after Thomas Hudson.
The monument was put up in 1769.
Bath Abbey.
He retired to Bath and spent his last fifteen years lodging in the house of Mrs Simpson at 3, Pierrepont Street (East side). Quin was fond of the city, often referring to it as 'a fine slope to the grave'.
James Quin was ‘privately interred in the Abbey on 25
January 1766. His monument was erected three years later in 1769 on ‘a pillar at the
south-eastern end of the nave”. It was probably moved in the 1860's to its present position.
For a succinct life of Quin see -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Quin
The epitaph in verse on the monument was written by Garrick.
Quin's will displayed a generous nature, and among numerous bequests was one of
fifty pounds to "Mr Thomas Gainsborough, limner."
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Garrick, Johnson and Boswell and the Quin monument in Bath Abbey.
https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/img30665
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Said to be Quin by Bartolomeo Nazzari (1699 - 1758).
This painting was acquired for only six guineas with other unfinished works from the studio sale in 1797 of Gainsborough's nephew and assistant, Gainsborough Dupont. It is a sketch for a full length portrait (now in the National Gallery of Ireland - above) painted during Quin's retirement in Bath and exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1763.
Quin was one of the leading actors of the generation before David Garrick, though the two were friendly rivals on the London stage for at least a decade.
Quin excelled in larger-than-life
stage presence and powerful declamation: Garrick was considered the better
Richard III, Quin the better Falstaff. Smollett's 'Humphrey Clinker' of 1771
contains an extended literary portrait of Quin during his Bath retirement as a
sort of real life Falstaff. Gainsborough's sketch shows similarly the lively
bonhomie of a 'big personality'.
James Quin appeared as Falstaff between 1746-1747.
Image here courtesy Christie's.
Monument to James and Anne Sutton.
After 1788.
Devizes.
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There is an indenture of 20 September 1791, when Thomas King, the statuary of Walcot, with Mr.Charles Harford, gent., as his trustee, conveyed to John Greenway in trust for Francis Greenway, mason, of Walcot (not the transported Australian architect), who would have been only thirteen at the time], ‘part of a pasture of 2a 22p called Upper Tyning [Walcot], being all those plots on the west side of an intended building called Mount Pleasant and all those two messuages thereon erecting at the cost of Francis Greenway.