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Henry Cheere

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series guides, Henry Cheere was "the first English-born sculptor to match the virtuosity of the continentals" and "formed his style on the small, crisp, curvaceous shapes of the French sculptor , though his monuments never approached
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Upon his death, his son William Cheere succeeded him as 2nd Baronet, but died unmarried in 1808. Sir Henry also had two daughters, one of them named Charles (1735–1799).
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A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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Funerary monument to Sir Richard Newman and family (c.1747), in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene,
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Memorial to Robert Davies Esq. of Llanerch (c1736), in Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin,
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Funerary monument to James Walsingham (1728) in parish church of St. Mary the Virgin,
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He retired from business and sold the contents of his workshop in March 1770.
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Monument to the Gwyn sisters and their friend, Ann Hester Antrim, in the
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John Brownlow, 5th Bt of Humby, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Charleville
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Monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (1666–1732) in Westminster Abbey
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Memorial to Capt Philip de Sausmarez in Westminster Abbey (c. 1747)
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Monument to James Cooper (d.1743) and his wife in All Saints,
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Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-18521 by Rupert Gunnis
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and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.103-104
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Index

Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet
sculptor
monumental mason
John Cheere
Clapham
Surrey
John Nost
Robert Hartshorne
William
Edward Stanton
St Margaret's, Westminster
Flemish
Henry Scheemakers
Westminster Abbey
Westminster
Justice of the Peace
deputy lieutenant
Middlesex
William Hogarth
Thomas Hudson
Joseph
Alexander Van Aken
Francis Hayman
Flanders
Society of Antiquaries
knighted
baronet
Royal Academy
Roubiliac
Shadoxhurst

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