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The monument is signed by the sculptor Nollekens but not dated. A manuscript document entitled 'Collections of Inscriptions upon Monuments and under Busts executed by Joseph Nollekens' shows the epitaph for the Tyrell memorial among other monuments dated from the late 1780s and can therefore be also dated from the same period. We don't know the reason why the daughters commissioned the monument to their their parents twenty years after their death. \n\nThe coat of arms and inscription record them, while the draped urn is a standard Classical symbol of death. Two cherubim are depicted at the base, but Christian imagery is subdued, as is commonly the case with British Protestant church monuments.\r\n\r\nNollekens was a prolific sculptor of portrait busts and operated a thriving workshop in London. Many of his busts are in the classical style, with loose drapery and cropped hair. He spent eight years in Rome from 1762 to 1770, where he worked with Bartolomeo Cavaceppi restoring and copying antique marbles. One of these copies, his group of <i>Castor and Pollux</i>, is in the Museum's collection (Museum no. A.59-1940). On his return to England he became the leading sculptor in London, and was quickly overwhelmed with commissions. One of his former studio assistants, J. T. Smith, was to write a vituperative biography of the sculptor after his death, in which he condemned him as a miser, ridiculing his odd personal habits and the squalor in which he lived. However, he admitted that Nollekens worked exceptionally hard, and that his portrait busts in particular were unrivalled.","physicalDescription":"Wall monument, marble. 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From the west wall of the South (Tyrell) chapel, Church of All Saints, East Horndon, Essex. Given by the Rector and Churchwardens of East Horndon with West Horndon in 1970.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Wall monument, marble, to Sir John Tyrell and Dame Mary his wife, by Joseph Nollekens, England, late 1780s","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane with Trusted, Marjorie. <u>British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>, London, 2002, p. 95, cat. no. 129."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gunnis, R., <u>Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851</u>, (revised edition, first published London 1953), London, 1968, p. 278"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Kenworthy-Browne, 'Inscriptions: a document from the studio of Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823)', Sculpture Journal, XIX, no. 1, 2020, pp. 112-5"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"coat of arms","id":"AAT126352"},{"text":"urn","id":"AAT129425"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823)\r\nMonument to Sir John Tyrell (about 1728–66) and his wife, Mary (died 1766)\r\nSigned; late 1780s\n\r\nNearly twenty years after this couple's death, their daughters had this memorial built. As with many funerary monuments in British Protestant churches, there is no overtly Christian imagery, apart from the two cherubs at the base. The draped urn is a standard classical symbol of death. Nollekens was a prolific sculptor and ran a thriving workshop in London.\n\r\nLondon\r\nMarble\r\nFrom the redundant church of All Saints, East Horndon, Essex","date":{"text":"2021","earliest":"2021-01-01","latest":"2021-12-31"}},{"text":"Sir John Tyrell and his wife died in 1766, and nearly twenty years later their daughters erected this memorial. As with many monuments in Protestant churches, there is little obviously Christian imagery, apart from the two cherubim at the base. The draped urn is a standard classical symbol of death. 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