HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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Museum, is based on a painting by Le Brun(P1&te 135).It is significant
in this context that Nicholas Sprimont had a substantial collection
of paintings which were sold after his death in 1771. The subject
matter included Classical Mythology, 'Jupiter and Leda', and 'Venus, its
companion' by P.Laura; 'Diana and her nymphs by Vanflarp';'Lucretia arid
CLeopatra by Ca.ssali'. Religious subjects included 'The Virgin, Child and
St.John by C.Maratti'; 'A Magdalen by Guido', another by Murillo, a
head of the Virgin by C.Dolchi, Hagar and Ismael by Larese, and 'A holy
family by Verones'. Popular subjects included a 'Mountebank on a Stage
and many figures', by Angellus, An astrologer, 'A Gipsy writing by
Veronese', Two Turks' Heads by Heemskirke, A boy with a fiddle by F.Hals,
a boy with a birds nest by Old S one, A bacchanalian by Larese, A
Dutch dairy maid by Noodigh. Still life and animal subjects included,
'A herring with oysters', 'Birds and dogs by A.Hondius', 'A small dutch
boor by Teniers', 'Dogs of divers kinds by Savory, and such scenes as
'A Poultry market' and 'A Pig market' by 'B.Gael'; Two goats heads by
Savory and a Lobster and a Crab by Elm Quarles. The Sale consisted of
108 lots, and although there is no way of proving that Sprimont was
collecting simultaneously with the early stages of his Chelsea Manufactory,
his collection betrays an interest in the type of subject matter used
at Chelsea, and it is probable that Sprimont did at least turn to
paintings and engravings after paintings for a source of ideas for
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his Chelsea products.
Whereas Chelsea made use of a variety of source material, the
early products of the Derby factory point to an emphasis on sculpture
as a source. The modeller for the Derby factory from its beginnings in
1750 to 1756 was Andrew Planch, son of Paul Planch and Marie Anne
Fournier, who was apprenticed to a London Jeweller and goldsmith, Edward
Mountenay 2 It is possible that the Derby factory was staited before 1750,
with the assistance of a certain James Marchand, a Westminster potter,
whose presene in Derby is recorded in 1752, when he married Mary
Oldfield at St.Alkmund's Church.3Andrew Planchis known to have been
in Derby from at least 1751 when two sons Paul Edmund and James were
baptized. James was buried in December, 175k, and in 1756, two more
sons were born to Andrew Planchl, James, who is described as
bastard