Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Jason Edwards, ‘Introduction: Sculpture Victorious, or, The British School, .c1760-1832?’

2 Sarah Burnage, ‘Introduction: The British School of Sculpture ? A Case Study’.

3 Joan Coutu, ‘Sculpture and the Forming of National Tastes in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century’.

4 Matthew Craske, ‘Extracting the Meaning of a Pile of Pancakes: An Analysis of Nicholas Read’s Monument to Admiral Tyrrel (1766-1770)’.

5 Sarah Burnage, ‘“Delighting the Common People”: John Bacon’s Monuments to the Earl of Chatham (1778-1784)’.

6 Tomas Macsotay, ‘Artistic Labour and Cosmopolitan Sociability: British Sculptors in Accounts from Late Eighteenth-Century Visitors to Rome’.

7 Roberto Ferrari, ‘Before Rome: John Gibson and the British School of Art’.

8. Martin Myrone: ‘“The Chatterton of Sculpture”: Thomas Procter and the Limits of the British School’.

9 Eleanor Hughes, ‘Smoke and Marble: Thomas Banks’s Monument to Captain George Blagdon Westcott’.

10 Jason Edwards, ‘John Charles Felix Rossi’s Cornwallis Monument (1807-1811) and the Colonial Cosmopolitanism of the British School’.

11 M.G. Sullivan, ‘Cunningham, Chantrey, and the British School of Sculpture’.

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