Joseph Wilton
Joseph Wilton was born in London on July 16th, 1722 and is the Sculptor. At the age of 81, Joseph Wilton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 81 years old, Joseph Wilton physical status not available right now. We will update Joseph Wilton's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Joseph Wilton (16 July 1722 – November 25, 1803) was an English sculptor.
He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 and the academy's third keeper. His works are particularly notable in Westminster Abbey, commemorating the lives of Britons.
Life
He was born in London's Charing Cross neighborhood, where his father had sculpted the ceilings of the Foundling Hospital. Joseph's father wished that Joseph should become a civil engineer, but Joseph instead wanted to be a sculptor.
In present-day Belgium, Wilton began training under Laurent Delvaux at Nivelles. He left Nivelles in 1744 and went to the Academy in Paris to study under Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In 1752, he went to Italy with his sculptor friend Louis-François Roubiliac to learn to sculpt in marble, and stayed for seven years, first in Rome and then in Florence. While in Rome, William Locke of Norbury, his first patron, was accompanied by Wilton, who then accompanied him on his tour of Italy. He studied antiquities and made numerous plaster casts and marble copies of classic works, many of which later became part of Charles Lennox's collection in west London. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a marble bust of physician and scholar Antonio Cocchi, carved by Wilton in 1755, his last year in Italy, on display. Margaret Whinney's investigation of antique busts influenced it to be one of Wilton's most important works.
During his stay in Florence, Giovanni Battista Cipriani became acquainted with the Florentine painter Giovanni Battista Cipriani. In August 1755, Wilton and the architect William Chambers returned to England, Cipriani went with them.
Wilton, a London artist, was appointed co-director of Lennox's Richmond House gallery and developed a workshop. He developed a large collection of busts and monuments, including the one in Westminster Abbey's commemoration of James Wolfe. Oliver Cromwell's marble busts, which he exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1761 and 1761, based on a cast of Cromwell's face. The Victoria and Albert Museum has one marble version, as well as the terracotta model for it.
He was first commissioned to create a statue of King George III in 1761. Similar commissions followed, one of which was issued in 1766 from New York City. This massive statue depicted the king on horseback in Roman garb, and was built in lead and gilded before being sent to America and erected at Bowling Green, near the tip of Manhattan in August 1770. It didn't last long, having been torn down by patriots in July 1776.
Several famous busts and monuments have been included in Wilton's other works (e.g.). Stephen Hales' memorial in Westminster Abbey, London, and other carvings, such as fireplaces and tables, are included.
Wilton was elected a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768, when he was perhaps at the height of his influence. However, he did inherit his father's fortune and the new riches diverted him away from sculpture to a life of dissolution. He was forced to sell the majority of his possessions in 1786, and in 1793 he was declared bankrupt. He was appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1790, a post he held until his death in 1803. He was buried in east London's St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead.
