Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

(1781-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chantrey, Francis, Sir, 1781-1841 NRA: Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841) Knight Sculptor DNB: Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt (1781-1841), sculptor LBT ID: FrChant1841 VIAF ID: 20433167 LOC ID: n82047713	B/BAP: 1781-04-07 DIED: 1841-11-25
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English sculptor who worked as a statuary from 1804; he employed the poet Allan Cunningham in his studio from 1814. He was knighted in 1835.
REFERENCES TO Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey: Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 150a Walter Scott to Charlotte Scott, 20 March 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, 14 November 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, [December 1820] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, 27 April 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 September 1821 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 10 November 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 25 May 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 18 February 1824 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, September 1825 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to John May, 11 December 1828 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Elgin, 20 January 1829 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1817 Verse 1: p. 150a [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 137 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Concluded]” in The Tatler 2 (15 January 1831) 457-58 Found 1: ¶ 12 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 19 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 18 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 25 Chapter XII 1820 Found 4: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Chapter II 1820-21 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter III 1821 Chapter IV 1821 Found 3: ¶ 14 ¶ 18 ¶ 21 Chapter IX 1822-23 Chapter XII 1824 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter IV 1828 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 23 Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter XII Found 2: ¶ 68 ¶ 69 Lady Morgan to an anonymous correspondent, 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 July 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Francis Chantrey to Sir Robert Peel, 26 January 1838 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to John Rickman, October 1838 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ n1 Henry Hallam to Francis Hodgson, [February 1842] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 George Henry Borrow to John Murray, 25 November 1842 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Robert Peel to Samuel Rogers, 2 July 1844 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. X” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (December 1847) 415-24 Found 1: ¶ 12 Henry Crabb Robinson to Samuel Rogers, [November 1848] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIV. 1818-1819 Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. XXVII. 1822-1823 Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 12 Ch. XXXII. 1829 Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. XXXVIII. 1837-1843 Found 1: ¶ n1 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [16 July 1851] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 4 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 1: ¶ 18 Ch. 17: Wellesleys Found 1: ¶ 19 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 9 Found 1: ¶ 11 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXVI Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IV 1798 Found 1: ¶ 6 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXII. 1840-47. Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IX. 1820-1821. Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ n1 Chapter X. 1822-24. Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter I. 1828-1830. Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter VII. 1847-50. Chapter IX. 1851. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XVI. Chap. XXIV. Found 1: ¶ 60 Chap. XXV. Found 1: ¶ 38 Chap. XXVI. Found 1: ¶ n1 Chap. XXX. Found 1: ¶ 29 Chap. XXXVI. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 14: 1826-32 Found 1: ¶ 64 Chapter 15: 1828-32 Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 25 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIV: 1837-38 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ 33