The Sleeping Children
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The Sleeping Children is a marble sculpture by Francis Chantrey. The statue depicts Ellen-Jane and Marianne Robinson asleep in each other's arms on a bed. The statue was commissioned by the mother of
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Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was a British linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included A
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…taken inspiration from Thomas Banks’ Boothby monument (1791) in St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne. The statue depicts Penelope Boothby, the daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet, who had died during childhood. Chantrey visited this monument and then returned to his home to make a model of his proposed sculpture. The statue was…
Engraving by John Raphael Smith after a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait, 1797
Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1781
Henry Fuseli, The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby, 1792
The Boothby Monument, described as being so lifelike that the child could be sleeping, is inscribed with an epitaph to Penelope's honour: "She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The unfortunate Parents ventured their all on this frail Bark. And the wreck was total"