- 18th century.
Nollekens was born on 11
August 1737 at 28 Dean Street, Soho, London, the son of the
Flemish painter Josef Frans Nollekens (1702–1748) who...
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Josef Frans Nollekens or
Joseph Frans Nollekens (1702–1748) was a
Flemish painter who was prin****lly
active in
England where he is
often referred to...
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Frans was the
father of the
famous English sculptor Joseph Nollekens. Jan
Baptist Nollekens is
mainly known for his
genre scenes of
peasants in interiors...
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artist himself. A
description by
Richard Thompson in John
Thomas Smith's
Nollekens and His Times, was of "... an
uncommonly fine
specimen of art, and approaches...
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painter Joseph Francis Nollekens,
known as Old
Nollekens to
distinguish him from his
better known sculptor son
Joseph Nollekens. The
following pictures...
- was
identified to be of a size that
matched a bust of
Sterne made by
Nollekens. The
skull was held up to be his,
albeit with "a
certain area of doubt"...
- Bust of
Johnson by
Joseph Nollekens, 1777...
- annuity. A bust of Orme at the age of forty-six, made in 1774 by
Joseph Nollekens, was
bequeathed to the East
India Company; an
engraving of it
forms the...
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private residence.
There is a
monument to Dr
Willis in the form of a
Joseph Nollekens bust, in the
transept of his
local Church of
Thomas Becket in Greatford...
- then the only
pupil ever
accepted by the
sculptor Joseph Nollekens during 1818/19.
Nollekens and
Bonomi became close friends. His
first signed work (1819)...
