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		Albion (William Blake) In the Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah and Urthona.
		William, Archbishop of Mainz William (Wilhelm), the son of Mainz in 954/5 and died in 968.
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	William Behnes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Behnes ( 1795 - 1864) was an English sculptor of the early 19th century.
		Born in London, Behnes was the son of a Hanoverian pianoforte -maker and his English wife.
		After the family returned to London, Behnes continued his artistic training, studying at the Royal Academy School of Art from 1813.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Behnes (198 words)

	William Behnes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Behnes (1795-1864) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (An artist who creates sculptures) sculptor of the early (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century.
		After the family returned to London, Behnes continued his artistic training, studying at the (An honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain) Royal Academy School of Art from 1813.
		Despite this success, he was financially inept and was declared (Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts) bankrupt in 1861, and died in poverty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Behnes.htm (240 words)

	Bradford Sculpture Trail - Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Behnes was also one of the most popular sculptors of his day, with two other versions of Peel in Leeds (1852) and Hendon, London (1855).
		Sir Robert Peel is perhaps best known for his introduction of the first form of modern policing with the creation of the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829, originally known as Peelers.
		Fairly early on, Behnes showed a talent for painting and in 1813 joined the Royal Academy School of Art where he won silver medals in 1816-19 and in 1819 the Society of Arts gold medal for inventing an instrument for transferring points from a sculptors model to marble.
	www.ngfl.ac.uk /sculptrail/peel.html (353 words)

	THOMAS WOOLNER - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS WOOLNER
		When a boy he showed talent for modelling, and when barely thirteen years old was taken as an assistant into the studio of William Behnes, and trained during four years.
		The fine statue of Bacon in the New Museum at Oxford was succeeded by full-size statues of Prince Albert for Oxford, Macaulay for Cambridge, William III.
		Among Woolners busts are those of Newman, Darwin, Sedgwick, Huxley, Cobden, Professor Lushington, Dickens, Kingsley, and Sir William Gull, besides the repetition, with variations, of Gladstone for the Bodleian, Oxford, and Mansion House, London, and Tennyson.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WO/WOOLNER_THOMAS.htm (414 words)

	Trafalgar Square [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Born in London, Behnes was the son of a Hanoverian pianoforte-maker and his English wife.
		The fourth plinth on the northwest corner was intended to hold a statue of William IV William IV (William Henry) (21 August 1765–20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death.
		William, the son of George III and younger brother and successor of George IV, was the penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover.
	www.wikimirror.com /Trafalgar_Square (4040 words)

	Hone, William, Papers, 1816-1842, Cage 136
		The papers of William Hone (1780-1842), political pamphleteer and antiquarian, were acquired by Washington State University in 1927.
		William Hone was born June 3, 1780, in Bath, England, the son of William and Frances Maria Stawell Hone.
		Hone, William, 1780-1842, The Every-day book, and table book; or, everlasting calendar of popular amusement, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times; forming a complete history of the year, months, and seasons, and a perpetual key to the almanac...
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	George Frederic Watts - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Watts was born in Marylebone, London, the delicate son of a poor piano -maker.
		He showed promise very early, learning sculpture from the age of 10 with William Behnes and enroling as a student at the Royal Academy at the age of 18.
		He came to the public eye with a drawing entitled Caractacus, which was entered for a competition to design murals for the new Houses of Parliament at Westminster in 1843.
	www.iridis.com /George_Frederic_Watts (910 words)

	William Behnes (1795-1864) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The sculptor William Behnes was born in London, the son of a pianoforte maker originally from Hanover.
		The family subsequently returned to London, and after some efforts in the family business, Behnes took up portraiture, studying at the Royal Academy from 1813, exhibiting there from 1815 and turning to sculpture in about 1819, after observing the success of the sculptor P. Chenu, who lodged in the same house.
		As well as his full size statues and innumerable portrait busts, Behnes also did a good line in church monuments, from simple urns and high relief portraits to full sized figures weeping on gravestones in the early nineteenth century manner.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /artists2/behnes.htm (225 words)

	A guide to the William Hone Manuscript Collection
		The William Hone Manuscript Collection is part of the Hone Collection at Adelphi University, acquired in 1993 through a gift from The Friends of Adelphi University Library, Inc. and a bequest from the Helene and Josephine Lewinsohn Estate.
		The William Hone Manuscript Collection was cataloged by Elayne Gardstein and processed by April Earle as part of the Hone Collection cataloging project funded with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		William Hone (1780-1842) was a popular and influential political satirist, pamphleteer, publisher and bookseller in early nineteenth century London.
	libraries.adelphi.edu /bar/hone/guide.html (3097 words)

	NICHOLS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE (Osborn Shelves Nichols)
		AL (3d person) to John Nichols, Pall Mall 1780 Jan 27 Informs Nichols that William Bowyer was never a candidate for a degree at the university.
		ALS to William Bowyer, Uckfield 1746 Sep 29 Orders the destruction of the remaining copies of Markland's edition of the Sylvae of Statius which Bowyer had printed in 1728.
		Nichols, [n.p.] [n.y.] Dec 28 + Paver, William, 1802-1871.
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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Woolner, Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		He trained with William Behnes and in 1842 enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy, London.
		This is evident in Woolner’s monument to William Wordsworth (marble, 1851; St Oswald, Grasmere, Cumbria).
		This relief portrait, which conveys both the poet’s physiognomy and his intellect, is flanked by botanically faithful renditions of flowers, emphasizing Wordsworth’s doctrine that in Woolner’s words, ‘common things can be made equally suggestive and instructive with the most exalted subjects’.
	www.artnet.com /library/09/0922/T092233.asp (305 words)

	March 10, Every-Day Book
		WILLIAM BEHNES, the sculptor, was honoured by the venerable president with the means of transmitting his parting looks to an admiring world, upon whom he was soon to look no more.
		Behnes were about two months before his death.
		Behnes has since distinguished, by admirable power of design and use of the chisel.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/069-march10.html (1754 words)

	Trafalgar Square biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The original name was to have been "King William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name "Trafalgar Square".
		Three of them hold statues : George IV (northeast, 1840s), Henry Havelock (southeast, 1861, by William Behnes), and Sir Charles James Napier (southwest, 1855).
		The fourth plinth on the northwest corner was intended to hold a statue of William IV, but remained empty due to insufficient funds.
	trafalgar-square.biography.ms (887 words)

	Painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A portrait painter and sculptor, George Frederick Watts was born in London, the son of a paino-maker.
		Initially he wanted to become a sculptor, and at the age of 10 was apprenticed to William Behnes.
		However, in 1835, at the age of 18, he went to the RA Schools, where he remained for only a short period, and thereafter was mainly self-taught.
	home.arcor.de /oscar.wilde/painter/artikel/paintings/watts/bio.htm (755 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| comment \| Portrait of a Surrey radical
		The memory of William Cobbett had already faded by the late nineteenth century as the white settlers of the Empire - the tea, coffee and finance barons of London - decamped to the Surrey hills.
		Born in London in 1817, the son of an unemployed piano maker, Watts was apprenticed at a young age into the capital's art world.
		He worked initially for the artist William Behnes while some of his early drawings were shown to the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Martin Archer-Shee, who promptly declared to Watts' father: "I can see no reason why your son should take up the profession of art."
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/columnist/story/0,9826,1304520,00.html (1039 words)

	Thomas Woolner in Cumbria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Thomas Woolner was born on the I7th December 1825 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, and came to London in 1838, where he studied sculpture under William Behnes.
		Through Rossetti met William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and agreed that their views on art were applicable to sculpture, so he accepted membership of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 - the only sculptor to be a member.
		He married Alice Waugh on 6 September 1864, later becoming William Holman Hunt’s brother-in-law when Hunt married Edith Waugh in 1875.
	www.visitcumbria.com /woolner.htm (222 words)

	British - Artists, Biographies and Artwork Online - Art History
		Dobson, William Charles Thomas - (1817 - 1898)
		Ross, Sir William Charles - (1794 - 1869)
		Talbot, William Henry Fox - (1800 - 1877)
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	stmary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		However, he was not so popular among the other inhabitants, as following the orders of Archbishop Laud, he "beautified the church and introduced laudian ritual", changing the position of the communion table from the centre of the church to the east end.
		In the south east corner of the chancel is a gilded, Italian statue of the Virgin and child, placed here in memory of Olive Montague Lindersley, Diocesan President of the Mother's Union 1928-1931.
		The notorious Lord North, Earl of Guildford, Rector here 1797-1850, erected this memorial sculpted by William Behnes in 1823, in memory of his wife Esther, who was the daughter of the Rector ofBighton.
	southernlife.org.uk /stmary.htm (2854 words)

	SIR WILLIAM WEBB FOLLETT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM WEBB FOLLETT
		SIR WILLIAM WEBB FOLLETT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM WEBB FOLLETT
		On the return of Peel to power in 1841 Sir William was again.
		A statue of Follett, executed by Behnes, was erected by subscription in Westminster Abbey.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOLLETT_SIR_WILLIAM_WEBB.htm (325 words)

	Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Most important among these, is the monument to the memory of Josiah Wedgwood, with a bust by his friend, and former employee, Flaxman.
		Others commemorate the Very Rev. John C. Woodhouse, D.D., Dean of Lichfield, seventeen years rector of Stoke, and a great patron to the town and the church, Josiah Spode, and his son, with symbolic sculptures by William Behnes.
		In the churchyard are two stones, which bear testimony to the longevity of the Potteries folk.
	www.stokeuncovered.co.uk /churches (1197 words)

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		William Behnes, sculptor: corresp and papers 1817-69 (MS Add.
		John Lindley and William Hutton, 'Illustratations of Fossil Plants' (1877): proof sheets, with notes on fossil genera by William Williamson c1877 (MS Add.
		Guillaume de Machaut: MS of his 'Le Jugement du Roy de Behaine' (1 vol) Late 14th cent (MS Add.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /accessions/2003/03returns/03ac12.htm (428 words)

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		Author's presentation copy, inscribed: "Miss Matthews with the best regards of the author." Original paper boards; enclosed in blue folding box.
		Peterson, William S. A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press.
		Poole, Reginald Stuart, W. Richmond, E. Poynter, J. Micklethwaite, and William Morris.
	www.asu.edu /lib/speccoll/prb/prb_p.htm (1055 words)

	Modern Sculpture In England
		Other classicists worthy of mention were William Theed (1764—1817), William Pitts (1790—1840), Thomas Campbell (1790-1858), Richard John Wyatt (1795-1858), Patrick McDowell (1799-1870), and Joseph Durham (1814-1877).
		More strictly portrait sculptors were their contemporaries, William Behnes (1790-1864), Thomas Kirk (1784-1845), and John E. Jones (1806-1862).
		THE REACTION AGAINST THE CLASSIC STYLE, The reaction against the classic style had attained considerable strength by the middle of this century.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/sculpture-26.shtml (1459 words)

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		Bedford, William Riland (1794-1843) Rector of Sutton Coldfield Antiquary ( 1)
		Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) Poet and Dramatist ( 1)
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	George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904): An Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Born in London, son of a piano maker and tuner.
		Early enjoyed the run of the studio of sculptor William Behnes.
		Won premium of £300 with cartoon of "Caractacus" for Westminster Palace, 1842.
	www.victorianweb.org /painting/watts (171 words)

	Magazine Antiques: Watts centenary
		George Frederic Watts was born in London in 1817.
		From about 1827 he studied with the sculptor William Behnes, and in 1835 he entered the Royal Academy Schools.
		In 1843 he went to Italy for four years and on his return to Britain became successful in both sculpture and painting in the classical style.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_166/ai_n6249240 (387 words)

	Thomas Woolner book online - - rare book pricing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Woolner trained with the sculptor William Behnes, exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1843.Woolners classical inclinations were rather difficult to reconcile with Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism, but his belief in close observation of nature was consistent with their aims.
		Frederic George Stephens (1828-1907) was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and an art critic.Stephens was a student of the Royal Academy of Arts, London and of William Holman Hunt.
		William W Warner - Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay - 0316923265
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