Charles Regnart
Charles Regnart (1759-1844) was an English sculptor, specialising in funerary monuments. His masterpiece is said to be the 17th century-style recumbent figure of George Rush in the parish church in Farthinghoe.[1] The figure shows Rush in old age, lying with his slippers on, clutching a Bible and staring to heaven. Regnart flourished from 1790 until 1830. His style has been described as "pseudo-Classical"[2] and is typified by much folded drapery and an overall pattern of white (usually a draped funerary urn or casket) against a black background.
Life
He was born in Bristol in England the son of Philip Regnart (1739-1805), a carver and statue maker from Flanders[3] who had worked under Thomas Ricketts of Gloucester, and who claimed descent from the Gothic chief Raginhart who sacked Rome with Alaric.[4] Charles mother was Mary Magrath. He had four brothers, Philip, Joseph, Alexander and Stephen.[5]
Charles married a Miss E Hunter of Hexham at Little Mary-la-Bonne Church in London, with whom he had one son, Charles, born in 1796. They lived at 12 Cleveland Street, off Cavendish Square in London.[6] Following the death of his wife he married Jane, the family cook. They moved to a new house at Hampstead Road near Euston around 1817. Charles exhibited several works at the Royal Academy.
He died on 19 November 1844 at St Marys Buildings, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London[7] and was buried in Hampstead Road Cemetery in London.
Notable Monuments
see[8]
- Both Lucy Davidson[9] and William Dunbar both at All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames
- John Beyton at Carshalton
- George Medley at Buxted
- Jane Rashleigh at Tywardreath (1795)
- William Vachell at Hinxton (1795)
- Thomas Somers Cocks at Eastnor (1796) (grandfather of Thomas Somers-Cocks)
- Henry Davidson (the elder) All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames (1799)
- Michael Biddulph, Ledbury (1800)
- Elizabeth St Aubyn, Orsett (1801)
- Thomas Astle, Battersea Parish Church (1803)
- Anthony Atcheson, Portsmouth Cathedral (1804)
- Memorial to John Andre (executed as a British spy 1780), in the Grosvenor Chapel, London (1804)
- Admiral White at Cookham (1810)
- Lt Henry Sedgewick at Hackney Parish Church (1811)
- Robert Hoy (d.1811) in Higham in Suffolk[10]
- Sir John Kemp, Gissing (1815)
- Jeremia Tarleton at the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool (destroyed by German bombing in December 1940)
- Hugh James, Carlisle Cathedral (1817)
- David Milligan, Jamaica Cathedral (1818)
- Sir Jonathan Miles, Ealing Parish Church (1821)
- Anne Margaret Brymer (d.1840), Port Antonio, Jamaica (1842)
References
- ↑ http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/regnart.htm
- ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00150037
- ↑ http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/spc_V31/architects-and-artists/661-architects-and-artists-r
- ↑ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Rupert Gunnis: Philip Regnart
- ↑ http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Regnart-38
- ↑ http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/regnart.htm
- ↑ http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Regnart-38
- ↑ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Rupert Gunnis: Charles Regnart
- ↑ http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/sculpture/ternouth/1.html
- ↑ http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/higham.htm