Sir richard westmacott biography books

          Westmacott was prolific as an artist, make as many as works in his career.

          For over thirty years, Sir Richard Westmacott was the leading official sculptor of his generation....

          Sir Richard Westmacott RA (1775 - 1856)

          RA Collection: People and Organisations

          Richard Westmacott was born in London the son of Richard Westmacott, a sculptor, and Sarah Vardy, the daughter of a furniture carver.

          His father worked as a chimney piece sculptor and maker of church monuments.

          At the age of fourteen, the younger Westmacott was apprenticed to his grandfather Thomas Vardy and when he was seventeen, he travelled to Italy and studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome from 1793 to 1795.

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        2. For over thirty years, Sir Richard Westmacott was the leading official sculptor of his generation.
        3. For over thirty years, Sir Richard Westmacott was the leading official sculptor of his generation.
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        5. Sir Richard Westmacott RA (15 July – 1 September ) was a British sculptor.

          6. He was a successful student, winning first prize in his final year at the academy. In Rome he also developed a friendship network of artists and architects, including the neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822).

          Westmacott returned to London in 1796 and married Dorothy Margaret Wilson, the daughter of a Dr Wilkinson of Jamaica, in 1798.

          The couple would go on to have eight children together, including the sculptor Richard Westmacott Jnr. (1799-1872), after his father.

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