Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Chantrey Francis Legatt F. L. C. ; Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey ; 1781 in Norton, a Derbyshire village, nowSheffield 1841 London a carpenter who also had a small farm initially working for grocer in Sheffield, then apprenticed to a woodcarver and gilder called Ramsay in Sheffield; draughtsman & engr. John R. Smith England, UK first 3D model of a plesiosaur fossil, found in 1823 ; Associate of the Royal Academy in 1816 & full Academician in 1818 ; first paleontological 3D model & sculpture making; mostly known for portrait sculpturs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leggatt_Chantrey ; BNBF: Recueil. Oeuvre de Francis Chantrey; AKL ; Debus: Paleoimagery, 208 ; English English sculptor, painter & patron, becoming the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain; home in Eccleston Street, Pimlico, London. 121983436
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