James Lovell (sculptor) explained

James Lovell (died 1778) was an English sculptor and interior decorator. From an obscure background, he has been taken to be a pupil of Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux.^{[1] [2]}

Works

• Stone chimneypiece at Hagley Hall
• Early 1750s, pendant for Wroxton Abbey^[3]
• 1754 North drawing room, Belhus mansion, Essex^[4]
• 1756 Church wall monument to Edward and Henrietta Montagu, in Horton, Northamptonshire Church, for Horace Walpole and possibly to his design^[2]
• c.1756 Statue of Caractacus in chains, Radway Grange
• Chelmsford Cathedral, monument to Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl FitzWalter
• c.1758 Church monument to Galfridus Mann at Linton, Kent, design by Richard Bentley^[5]
• Church tablet monument to James Wolfe at Westerham^{[6] [7]}
• Norfolk House, chimneypiece and ceiling trophies (attributed), design by Giovanni Battista Borra^[8]

References

• Michael McCarthy, James Lovell and His Sculptures at Stowe, The Burlington Magazine Vol. 115, No. 841 (Apr., 1973), pp. 220–232. Published by: The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/877332

External links

• Hagley Hall, chimney piece by James Lovell

Notes and References

1. 63510. Lovell, James. Michael. McCarthy.
2. Web site: Lovell, James, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. 12 April 2015.
3. http://www.banburymuseum.org/Cake%20and%20Cockhorse/VOL_04/V04NO06.pdf Cake and Cockhorse, Banbury Historical Society, Winter 1969, (PDF)
4. "Parishes: Aveley", in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8, ed. W R Powell, Beryl A Board, Nancy Briggs, J L Fisher, Vanessa A Harding, Joan Hasler, Norma Knight and Margaret Parsons (London, 1983), pp. 1-16 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp1-16 [accessed 9 April 2015].
5. McCarthy, p. 221
6. http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleimages/hwcorrespondence/9/251.pdf Walpole Correspondence
7. Book: Gunnis, Rupert. Rupert Gunnis

   . Rupert Gunnis. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851. Revised. 1968.

8. Web site: The Music Room from Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, Brettingham, Matthew, V&A Search the Collections. 12 April 2015.