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|pected assassination last night: and I was to so that the busts appeared like solid casts. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. have been known by my laced hat.' This vil- His mode of living when at Rome was most Nollekens and his Times: comprehending a lanous transaction, which might have proved filthy: he had an old woman, who, as he Life of that celebrated Sculptor, &c. &c. fatal to Nollekens, I have often heard him re- stated, did for him,' and she was so good a By John Thomas Smith, Keeper of the late; and he generally added, ‘It's what the cook, that she would often give him a dish for Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Old Bailey people would call a true bill against dinner, which cost him no more than three2 vols. 8vo. London, 1828. Colburn. Jem.' pence. "Nearly opposite to my lodgings,' he As the present notice of this very amusing "The patrons of Nollekens, being characters said, there lived a pork-butcher, who put out work will be the first of it in the possession of professing taste and possessing wealth, em- at his door at the end of the week a plateful of the public, we will not occupy room with pre-ployed him as a very shrewd collector of antique what he called cuttings, bits of skin, bits of fatory remarks, which may be much more fragments; some of which he bought on his gristle, and bits of fat, which he sold for twoagreeably devoted to the illustration of our own account; and, after he had dexterously re- pence, and my old lady dished them up with a author. Simply premising, therefore, that we stored them with heads and limbs, he stained little pepper and a little salt; and with a slice have not been more entertained since the days them with tobacco-water, and sold them, some- of bread, and sometimes a bit of vegetable, I of Boswell's Johnson than we have been with times by way of favour, for enormous sums. made a very nice dinner.' Whenever good Mr. Smith's desultory, rambling, topographical, My old friend, Mr. George Arnald, A.R.A., dinners were mentioned, he was sure to say, and anecdotical miscellany of every thing which favoured me with the following anecdote, which Ay, I never tasted a better dish than my could interest a literary gossip during half a he received immediately from Mr. Nollekens, Roman cuttings.' By this time, the name of century, with a few years to boot, we shall concerning some of these fragments. Jenkins, Nollekens was pretty well known on the Stock proceed at once to communicate a part of our a notorious dealer in antiques and old pictures, Exchange of London, as a holder to a considerpleasure to our readers. who resided at Rome for that purpose, had able amount." Mr. Smith was for three years a pupil of been commissioned by Mr. Locke of Norbury In 1771, enriched by such rascally pursuits, Nollekens, an acquaintance of nearly sixty years' Park, to send him any piece of sculpture which he was elected an associate, and in the following duration, and one of his executors; so that he he thought might suit him, at a price not ex-year a royal academician; and his practice in was well fitted for the task he has here dis- ceeding one hundred guineas; but Mr. Locke, London increased to the utmost extent. He charged. Nollekens himself was the son of an immediately upon the receipt of a head of then married a Miss Welch (daughter of Jusindifferent painter (originally from Antwerp), Minerva, which he did not like, sent it back tice Welch, and the Pekuah in Rasselas); an born in England in 1737, a Roman Catholic again, paying the carriage and all other ex- admirable match, if penuriousness and selfish in the little religion he professed, and for ten penses. Nollekens, who was then also a resi- wretchedness could make a match admirable. years a student under Scheemakers. In early dent in Rome, having purchased a trunk of a He was not surpassed by Elwes himself; and life he obtained several premiums for models Minerva for fifty pounds, found, upon the re- of her likeness, praised be the sex! we never from the Society of Arts and in 1760 went to turn of this head, that its proportion and cha- read of a sufficiently miserly prototype. Rome. Here he wrought, and among other racter accorded with his torso. This discovery "During the time (says his biographer) I productions acquired fame and emolument from induced him to accept an offer made by Jenkins was with him, he now and then gave a dinner, busts which he made of Garrick and Sterne; of the head itself; and two hundred and twenty particularly when his steadfast friend Lord and about this period we find the following guineas to share the profits. After Nollekens Yarborough, then the Hon. Mr. Pelham, sent had made it up into a figure, or, what is called his annual present of venison; and it is most "Whilst Mr. Nollekens was at Rome, he by the venders of botched antiques, restored surprising to consider how many persons of was recognised by Mr. Garrick with the fami- it,' which he did at the expense of about twenty good sense and high talent visited Mrs. Nolleliar exclamation of, What! let me look at guineas more for stone and labour, it proved a kens, though it probably was principally owing you! are you the little fellow to whom we gave most fortunate hit, for they sold it for the enor- to the good character her father and sister held the prizes at the Society of Arts?' 'Yes, sir,' mous sum of one thousand guineas! and it is in society. Dr. Johnson and Miss Williams being the answer, Mr. Garrick invited him to now at Newby in Yorkshire. The late cele- were often there, and they generally arrived breakfast the next morning, and kindly sat brated Charles Townley and the late Henry in a hackney-coach, on account of Miss Wilto him for his bust, for which he paid him Blundell, Esqrs. were two of his principal cus-liams's blindness. When the doctor sat to 127. 12s.; and I have not only often heard tomers for antiques. Mr. Nollekens was like- Mr. Nollekens for his bust, he was very much Mr. Nollekens affirm that the payment was wise an indefatigable inquirer after terracottas, displeased at the manner in which the head made in 'gold,' but that this was the first executed by the most celebrated sculptors, Mi- had been loaded with hair, which the sculptor busto he ever modelled. Sterne also sat to him chel Angelo, John di Bologna, Fiamingo, &c. insisted upon, as it made him look more like when, at Rome; and that bust brought him The best of these he reserved for himself until an ancient poet. The sittings were not very into great notice. With this performance the day of his death. The late Earl of Bes-favourable, which rather vexed the artist, who, Nollekens continued to be pleased even to his borough and the late Lord Selsey were much upon opening the street-door, a vulgarity he second childhood, and often mentioned a pic-attached to Mr. Nollekens at this time, but was addicted to, peevishly whined - Now, ture which Dance had made of him leaning his greatest friend was the late Lord Yar- doctor, you did say you would give my busto upon Sterne's head. During his residence in borough. For that nobleman he executed half an hour before dinner, and the dinner has Italy he gained the Pope's gold medal for a many very considerable works in marble, for basso-relievo, which will be noticed in the se- which he received most liberal and immediate cond volume. Barry, the historical painter, payment. Nollekens, who wished upon all ocwho was extremely intimate with Nollekens at casions to save every shilling he possibly could, Rome, took the liberty one night, when they was successful in another manœuvre. He acwere about to leave the English coffee-house, tually succeeded as a smuggler of silk stockings, to exchange hats with him; Barry's was gloves, and lace; his contrivance was truly inedged with lace, and Nollekens's was a very genious, and perhaps it was the first time that shabby plain one. Upon his returning the hat the custom-house officers had ever been so taken the next morning, he was requested by Nol- in. His method was this: all his plaster busts lekens to let him know why he left him his being hollow, he stuffed them full of the above gold-laced hat. Why, to tell you the truth, articles, and then spread an outside coating of my dear Joey,' answered Barry, I fully ex-plaster at the back across the shoulders of each,

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been waiting this long time.' To which the doctor's reply was, Bow-wow-wow!' The bust is a wonderfully fine one, and very like, but certainly the sort of hair is objectionable; having been modelled from the flowing locks of a sturdy Irish beggar, originally a street pavior, who, after he had sat an hour, refused to take a shilling, stating that he could have made more by begging! Doctor Johnson also considered this bust like him; but, whilst he acknowledged the sculptor's ability in his art, he could not avoid observing to his friend Boswell, when they were looking at it in Nolle

kens's studio, It is amazing what ignorance | ant on the king-certainly not from his ma- wear them long after they had become unof certain points one sometimes finds in men jesty, nor from Nollekens; however, I could fashionable; indeed, until they were worn out. of eminence:' though, from want of knowing name half-a-dozen persons who continue to re- A drab was his favourite colour, and his suit the sculptor, a visitor, when viewing his studio, late it. The story runs thus. When Mr. Nol- was generally made from the same piece; was heard to say, What a mind the man lekens attended the king the following day, to though now and then he would treat himself must have from whom all these emanated!'" receive his majesty's commands as to the time with a striped Manchester waistcoat, of one of "His singular and parsimonious habits were for the next sitting, as he approached the royal which he was so fond, that he sat to Abbot for most observable in his domestic life. Coals presence, instead of making an apology on the his portrait in it; an engraving from which were articles of great consideration with Mr. saint's account, he merely wished to know when may be seen in Messrs. Cadell's Collection of Nollekens; and these he so rigidly economised, he might be allowed to go on with his busto? interesting contemporary Portraits, where he that they were always sent early, before his The king, however, with his usual indulgence is represented leaning on his bust of Fox, which men came to work, in order that he might to persons as ignorant as Nollekens was of the brought him into more notice than any other have leisure time for counting the sacks, and common marks of respect, observed, So, Nol- of his productions. His dress-stockings were disposing of the large coals in what was ori- lekens, where were you yesterday?' Nollekens. also rather remarkable, being ornamented with ginally designed by the builder of his house for Why, as it was a saint's day, I thought you blue and white stripes, similar to those cona wine-cellar, so that he might lock them up would not have me; so I went to see the beasts stantly and so lately worn by Sir Thomas for parlour use. Candles were never lighted at fed in the Tower.' The king. Why did you Stepney, an old member of White's, in St. the commencement of the evening; and when- not go to Duke Street?' Nollekens. Well, James's-street; of which house of notoriety ever they heard a knock at the door, they I went to the Tower; and do you know, they the annexed anecdote, extracted from the Rev. would wait until they heard a second rap, lest have got two such lions there! and the biggest W. Cole's MSS. in the British Museum, shall the first should have been a runaway and their did roar so; my heart, how he did roar!' And conclude this chapter, and may probably be candle wasted. Mr. and Mrs. Nollekens used then he mimicked the roaring of the lion, so found entertaining to the reader. The fola flat candlestick when there was any thing to loud and so close to the king's ear, that his lowing humorous address was supposed to have be done; and I have been assured that a pair majesty moved to a considerable distance to been written by Colonel Lyttelton, brother to of moulds, by being well nursed, and put out escape the imitation, without saying, like Bot- Sir George Lyttelton, in 1752, on his Majesty's when company went away, once lasted them a tom in the comedy, return from Hanover, when numberless ad. whole year!" dresses were presented. White's Chocolate House, near St. James's Palace, was the famous gaming-house, where most of the nobility had meetings, and a society. It was given to me December 8th, 1752.

In the following we observe no order of classification; trusting to the piquancy of the stories themselves to reward the trouble of their perusal.

"Mr. Fountain, who succeeded Mr. De la Place in Mary-le-bone Gardens school, was once walking with Handel round Mary-le-bone Gardens, and, upon hearing music which he could not understand, observed to Handel, This is d-d stuff!' 'It may be d-d stuff, but it is mine,' rejoined Handel."

'Let him roar again, let him roar again.' A modeller keeps his clay moist by spirting water over it; and this he does by standing at a little distance with his mouth filled with water, which he spirts upon it, so that the water is sent into all the recesses of his model The Gamesters' Address to the King. before he covers it up: this, it is said, Nolle- 'Most righteous Sovereign,-May it please kens did in the king's presence, without de- your majesty, we, the lords, knights, &c. of claring what he was about to do. However, it the Society of White's, beg leave to throw ourwas not the case with Mr. Bacon, the sculptor, selves at your majesty's feet (our honours and who had provided a long silver syringe for that consciences lying under the table, and our forpurpose, before he attended the king, with tunes being ever at stake), and congratulate Of Steevens, the commentator on Shakspeare: which he could easily throw the water into the your majesty's happy return to these king"Mrs. Swan, an aged woman, who lets ready-recesses of the model, without making so dis-doms, which assembles us together, to the great furnished lodgings in Hampstead, and who agreeable a noise in his majesty's presence. advantage of some, the ruin of others, and the married Steevens's gardener, assured me that With the drapery of this bust of the king, unspeakable satisfaction of all, both ́us, our no creature on earth could be more afraid of Nollekens had more anxiety and trouble than wives and children. We beg leave to acknow. death than Steevens; that on the day of his with any of his other productions: he assured ledge your majesty's great goodness and lenity, decease he came into the kitchen, where she Mr. Joseph, the associate of the Royal Aca- in allowing us to break those laws which we and her husband were sitting at dinner, snatched demy, that after throwing the cloth once or ourselves have made, and you have sanctified at their pudding, which he ate most voraciously, twice every day for nearly a fortnight, it came and confirmed; while your majesty alone reat the same time defying the grinning monster excellently well, by mere chance, from the fol-ligiously observes and regards them. And we in the most terrific language. lowing circumstance. Just as he was about to beg leave to assure your majesty of our most "I once heard Mr. Nollekens relate an make another trial with his drapery, his ser- unfeigned loyalty and attachment to your sacred anecdote in the presence of Mr. Richard Dal- vant came to him for money for butter; he person; and that next to the kings of diaton, then librarian to King George III., which threw the cloth carelessly over the shoulders monds, clubs, spades, and hearts, we love, will shew how well his majesty must have been of his lay-man, in order to give her the money, honour, and adore you. To which his maacquainted with even the religious persuasions, when he was forcibly struck with the beauti-jesty was pleased to return this most gracious as well as the faces and family connexions, of ful manner in which the folds had fallen; and answer. his subjects. When I was modelling the he hastily exclaimed, pushing her away, Go, My lords and gentlemen,-I return you king's busto,' observed Mr. Nollekens, I was go, get the butter. And he has frequently my thanks for your loyal address; but whilst commanded to go to receive the king at Buck- been heard to say, that that drapery was by far I have such rivals in your affection, as you tell ingham House, at seven o'clock in the morn- the best he ever cast for a busto. * me of, I can neither think it worth preserving

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ing, for that was the time his majesty shaved. "Perhaps (adds Mr. S. who is talking of nor regarding. I look upon you yourselves as a After he had shaved himself, and before he whole-lengths) it now may be better, by way pack of cards, and shall deal with you accordhad put on his stock, I modelled my busto. I of variety, to give a few of Mr. Nollekens's ingly.'-See Cole's MSS. vol. xxxi. p. 171, in sot him down, to be even with myself, and the recollections; but before they are related, a the British Museum. king seeing me go about him, and about him, description of his person may not be considered "To prove the wonderfully sagacious and said to me, 'What do you want?' I said, 'I as out of place. His figure was short, his head retentive memory of Mrs. Garrick's little dog want to measure your nose. The queen tells big, and it appeared much increased by a large. Biddy, and how much she must have noticed me I have made my nose too broad.' Mea- crowned hat, of which kind he was very fond; her master when rehearsing his parts at home, I sure it then,' said the king. Ay, my good but his dress-hat, which he always sported shall give (says Mr. S.) the following most exfriend,' observed Dalton, who had been inti- when he went to court, or to the Academy traordinary anecdote, as nearly as I can, in the mate with Nollekens during their stay at Rome, dinners, was nearly flat, and he brought it manner in which Mrs. Garrick related it to me I have heard it often mentioned in the li- from Rome. His neck was short, his shoulders a short time before her death. One evening, brary; and it has also been affirmed that you narrow, his body too large, particularly in the after Mr. Garrick and I were seated in our box pricked the king's nose with your said callipers. front lower part, which resembled that of at Drury-lane Theatre, he said, Surely there I will tell you what the king said of you when Tenducci, and many other falsetto-singers; he is something wrong on the stage,' and added, you did not attend according to command, one was bow-legged and hook-nosed, indeed, his he would go and see what it was. morning, Nollekens is not come: I forgot, leg was somewhat like his nose, which re- after this, when the curtain was drawn up, I it is a saint's day, and he is a Catholic." The sembled the rudder of an Antwerp packet-boat; saw a person come forward to speak a new profollowing anecdote is current, but on what au- his hips were rather thin, but between his logue, in the dress of a country bumpkin, whose thority it rests, I know not; allowing the story brows there was great evidence of study. He features seemed new to me; and whilst I was to be true, it could come only from an attend. was very fond of his ruffles, and continued to wondering who it could possibly be, I felt my

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HERE is another of our pleasing annual visiters, in its handsome dress of green and gold; Rienzi: a Tragedy. By Miss Mitford. 12mo. and internally adorned with many elegances pp. 66. London, 1828. J. Cumberland. both of art and literature. About eighty conOUR opinion of this tragedy has been already tributions in prose and verse form its interexpressed, and the perusal only induces a repe-esting and various contents, to which it may tition; we shall, therefore, content ourselves with a few extracts.