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Spring Cottage aka House, Kerridge
Town Hall, Bollington
Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
Cimitero Acattolico, Rome
Alfred Gatley 1816-1863 is in Sculptors.
On 15th January 1816 Alfred Gatley was born at Spring Cottage aka House, Kerridge.
In 1839 Alfred Gatley (age 22) became a student at the Royal Academy, where he gained silver medals for modelling from the antique, and in 1841 for the first time exhibited a "Bust of a Gentleman".
1847. Alfred Gatley (age 30). Elizabeth Swindells. Town Hall, Bollington.
1847. Alfred Gatley (age 30). George Swindells. Town Hall, Bollington.
1850 to 1853. Alfred Gatley (age 33). Echo, 1850 1853, Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire [Map]. Gatley sculpted at least three versions of Echo on request from clients. One of these is at Gawsworth, another is thought to be in Ireland, and the present whereabouts of the third is not known. One copy was sold at Christies in 1993, and sold on in 1997 by Lord & Lady White of Hull to an unidentified buyer for $29,900.
1851. Alfred Gatley (age 34). Memorial to Elizabeth Clayton of the Kerridge mining family headed by William Clayton, 1851, in Norbury church.
In 1851 Alfred Gatley (age 34) produced a bust in marble of Augustus Henry Vernon 6th Baron Vernon (age 21) of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1852 Alfred Gatley (age 35) moved to Rome where he took a studio on the Pincian Hill.
In 1862 Alfred Gatley (age 45) exhibted his bas-relief of 'Pharaoh and his Hosts' at the International Exhibition in London. His last visit to England.
On 28th June 1863 Alfred Gatley (age 47) died. He was buried in the Cimitero Acattolico, Rome. His grave carries the Latin inscription: "... great in his works, a loyal citizen, beloved by many and respected by all. He had a kindness of heart, and a hatred of all that was false."