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Lyme Park, Cheshire.
The National Trust.
Bust of Maud Legh.
By Alfred Gatley (1816-1863).
Married in 1843, Maud was Thomas Legh's second wife.
White marble, 1844.
Lyme was once home to the Legh family and, in its heyday, a great sporting estate.
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Alfred Gatley undertook numerous commissions for the Leghs, including Thomas Legh's memorial tablet in Disley church.
Alfred Gatley was born near Macclesfield, Cheshire, the son a of quarry owner, he began carving busts and statuettes while assisting his father. With the support of a local clergyman, he moved to London in 1837, working as a studio assistant first to EH Baily, and later to ML Watson. In the meantime, he had enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools, winning silver medals in 1841, 1842 and 1844.
In 1852 he settled in Rome, where he became a close associate of John Gibson, with whom he shared a passion for the severely antique style. One of his principal works in Rome was this piece, now here in the Museum and Art Gallery at Salford.
After his failure to secure any major commissions in Rome, he gambled everything on showing his relief of The Overthrow of Pharaoh from the Miller Mausoleum at the International Exhibition in London in 1862, but this too, despite attracting much critical acclaim, failed to win him any new commissions.
According to the Art Journal, the ‘English public failed to comprehend the largeness of [his] manner’. In his disappointment, he returned to Rome, dying of dysentery the following year, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, where his grave is marked by one of his own marble lions.
Snowshill Manor was the property of Winchcombe Abbey from 821 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when the Abbey was confiscated by King Henry VIII, who presented it to his last queen, Catherine Parr. Between 1539 and 1919 it had a number of tenants and owners until it was purchased by Charles Paget Wade, an architect, artist-craftsman, collector, poet and heir to the family fortune. He restored the property, living in the small cottage in the garden and using the manor house as a home for his collection of objects. By the time of his death he had amassed over 22,000 objects. He gave the property and the contents of this collection to the National Trust in 1951.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
a billboard advertising the narrow gauge railway built on the farm in the background by the sandstone heritage trust, maluti mountains, free state province, south africa.
CHICAGO (July 24, 2010) -- The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, held the Ultimate LEGO® Architects Build-a-World at Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute in Chicago on Saturday and invited youth to bring their creativity to the architectural ideas of scale, proportion and space.
Over 1,000 people worked to incorporate their buildings into the surrounding landscape, using the ideas Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered over a century ago including 10 year old Lindsay from St. Louis, MO. Lindsay with her parents, sister and grand father created an open space house that incorporated lots of green ideas including water under the floor of the house.
After the Militia tent sank into the mud (well the monster tent sank, and then the monsters nicked the militia tent), they decamped to a seconadary base. The bar.
Innis, who loves that kind of fooling around, had only eyes for Miss Pug!
When he plays with me, he'll be just like that lovely giant. We like rolling on the floor and he does as if he was going to bite me, but never would.
Arlington Court, near Barnstable, Devon, the home of the Chichester family from the 14th century until 1949, when it was bequeathed to the national Trust.