James Lovell (sculptor)

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[3]
• Early 1750s, pendant for Wroxton Abbey[4]
• 1754 North drawing room, Belhus mansion, Essex[5]
• 1756 Church wall monument to Edward and Henrietta Montagu, in Horton, Northamptonshire Church, for Horace Walpole and possibly to his design[6][2]
• c.1756 Statue of Caractacus in chains, Radway Grange[7]
• Chelmsford Cathedral, monument to Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl FitzWalter[8]
• c.1758 Church monument to Galfridus Mann at Linton, Kent, design by Richard Bentley[9]
• Church tablet monument to James Wolfe at Westerham[10][11]
• Norfolk House, chimneypiece and ceiling trophies (attributed), design by Giovanni Battista Borra[12]

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

Notes

1. McCarthy, Michael. "Lovell, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63510. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. "Lovell, James, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851". Retrieved 12 April 2015.
3. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1296865)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
4. Cake and Cockhorse, Banbury Historical Society, Winter 1969, (PDF) at p. 105
5. "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].
6. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1190174)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
7. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1001195)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
8. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1328779)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
9. McCarthy, p. 221
10. Walpole Correspondence
11. Gunnis, Rupert (1968). Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (Revised ed.).
12. "The Music Room from Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, Brettingham, Matthew, V&A Search the Collections". Retrieved 12 April 2015.

External links

• Hagley Hall, chimney piece by James Lovell