IN THE MANNER OF JOHN BACON (1740-99), CIRCA 1790 AND LATER

In addition to important public and corporate commissions, John Bacon's sculptor workshop, established in 1771, at 17 Newman Street, Marylebone, produced a range of chimney-pieces, garden sculpture, portrait busts and funerary monuments. The productivity of the workshop was based on Bacon's perfecting the use of a pointing machine that enabled his assistants to translate his models into full-scale works of sculpture, and the availability of a pattern book for clients to select a specific design. These practices brought an extraordinary amount of work and prosperity to the studio and his work was much admired by his clients, who were powerful and influential both within Britain and abroad.