Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Church of the Holy Trinity
Monument to Thomas and Catherine Wilson. Marble. Thomas Scheemakers, 1774.
A grieving putto extinguishes a torch (a symbol of death) while wiping away a tear as he leans on a large coloured urn. He stands in front of a striking black obelisk, framed by acanthus and flaming urns, with the inscription under the ledge. This records the dedication to Thomas and Catherine Wilson, whose funerary slab gives the dates of their deaths, hers in 1770 his in 1774, and adds that he had been the church’s vicar for over forty years. Thomas Scheemakers (1740-1808) had trained with his father Peter, and on his father’s retirement to Antwerp took over the workshop, here the design and the treatment of the mourning putto follow his father’s example.
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Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Church of the Holy Trinity
Monument to Thomas and Catherine Wilson. Marble. Thomas Scheemakers, 1774.
A grieving putto extinguishes a torch (a symbol of death) while wiping away a tear as he leans on a large coloured urn. He stands in front of a striking black obelisk, framed by acanthus and flaming urns, with the inscription under the ledge. This records the dedication to Thomas and Catherine Wilson, whose funerary slab gives the dates of their deaths, hers in 1770 his in 1774, and adds that he had been the church’s vicar for over forty years. Thomas Scheemakers (1740-1808) had trained with his father Peter, and on his father’s retirement to Antwerp took over the workshop, here the design and the treatment of the mourning putto follow his father’s example.
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