Charles Regnart (1759 – 19 November 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 Farthinghoe is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. It is located on the A422 road about north-west of Brackley and south-east of Banbury. The origin of the village's name is uncertain. Possibly, 'hill-spur of the dwe ...

. 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" 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

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, the son of Philip Regnart (1739–1805), a carver and statue maker from

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who had worked under Thomas Ricketts of

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, and who claimed descent from the Gothic chief Raginhart who sacked Rome with Alaric. Regnart married Esther Hunter of

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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

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in London. Following Esther's death, he married Jane, the family cook. They moved to a new house at Hampstead Road near Euston around 1817. He exhibited several works at the Royal Academy. He died on 19 November 1844 at St Marys Buildings,

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, London, and was buried in Hampstead Road Cemetery in

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Notable monuments

*Both Lucy Davidson and William Dunbar both at

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*John Beyton at

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*George Medley at

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*Jane Rashleigh at

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(1795) *William Vachell at

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(1795) *Thomas Somers Cocks at Eastnor (1796) (grandfather of Thomas Somers-Cocks) *Henry Davidson (the elder)

(1799) *Michael Biddulph,

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(1800) *Elizabeth St Aubyn,

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(1801) *

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, Battersea Parish Church (1803) *Anthony Atcheson,

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(1804) *Memorial to

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(executed as a British spy in 1780), in the

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(1804) *Admiral White at

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(1810) *Lt Henry Sedgewick at Hackney Parish Church (1811) *Robert Hoy (d.1811) in Higham in

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* Sir John Kemp,

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(1815) *Jeremiah Tarleton at the

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(destroyed by German bombing in December 1940) *Hugh James,

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(1817) *David Milligan,

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Cathedral (1818) *Sir Jonathan Miles,

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Parish Church (1821) *Anne Margaret Brymer (d.1840),

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(1842)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Regnart, Charles 1759 births 1844 deaths British male sculptors Artists from Bristol