User talk:Xjenxranx/sandbox

OceanBlue11 - Artworks: Early Notable Work - Due to being a woman her choice of commissions were limited however, she took this opportunity to chose her subjects as infants and children, with this choice she could capitalize on her career. : I think you could expand on the reason why she chose children as subjects and how did it effect her career. Was it to express womanhood and fertility?

OceanBlue11 (talk) 17:24, 6 March 2020 (UTC) OceanBlue11]

PRINCEBEANS INTRO - consider putting more info here so it is clear why this person deserves their own page

BIOGRAPHY "The daughter of sculptor John Francis, Thornycroft was born at Thornham in Norfolk. She studied sculpture under her father, and exhibited her works at the Royal Academy of Arts at age 21." - "...and exhibited her works at the Royal Academy as early as 21."

EARLY NOTABLE WORK "Mary Thornycroft was hired as a sculptor by Queen Victoria. Thornycroft sculpted many different busts,fragments, and sculptures that are now within the Royal Collection. Her first ever sculpture that was exhibited in the Royal Collection was a bust of her father in 1835." - this information has already been told to us so I would make a choice where you want it.

"One specific collection called "The Four Seasons" was intended for John Gibson, a dear friend to Thornycroft, however he was unable and referred them to Thornycroft." - I dont understand this sentence

SCULPTURES "Mary Thornycroft's primary artistic practice was sculpture. Three main categories of her practice was busts, fragments, and full body compositions. The materials she specialized with were marble and sometimes bronze. Thornycroft's style was naturalistic and she could execute the age of the subject very well. The details that she accomplished in her sculptures actively displayed personalized expressions of each subject she sculpted. Her style of each sculpture evoke "ideal" figures. [1] She trained and learned from her father, along with male students, and she learned the same subject matter as them. The men that studied alongside her also lived with her family. With constant conversation that was about art and the practice she was subject to artistic thinking." - I think this info could be included elsewhere. It could be combined with "Early Notable Work" under a general "Style" tag or domething of the like and then you could go in with the listing of different kinds of sculpture. Princebeans (talk) 17:34, 6 March 2020 (UTC)princebeans}

Jaylin Biography[edit] The daughter of sculptor John Francis, Thornycroft was born at Thornham in Norfolk. She studied sculpture under her father, and exhibited her works at the Royal Academy of Arts at age 21.

In 1840, she married Thomas Thornycroft, a student of her father. The couple travelled to Italy and lived and worked for a time in Rome. While in Rome, Mary Thornycroft became friends with the sculptors Bertel Thorvaldsen and John Gibson. On her return to London, Gibson recommended her services to Queen Victoria.

Thornycroft created numerous busts and statues for the Queen, chiefly of the royal children. The drawing-room at Osborne House contained nine life-size marble statues of the young princes and princesses that were modelled by Thornycroft. She also executed a number of busts of private individuals, as well as a few ideal statues. Among the latter is her well-known figure of a ‘Skipping Girl’.

Thornycroft also gave lessons in sculpting to Princess Louise, one of Victoria's daughters, who became a sculptor also.

Thornycroft died on 1 February 1895.

Family[edit] The Thornycrofts had six children who grew to adulthood, two sons (Hamo and John Isaac), and four daughters (Alyce, Theresa, Helen and Frances). Hamo Thornycroft became a sculptor while daughters Alyce, Theresa Thornycroft, and Helen Thornycroft became artists. John Isaac Thornycroft became a marine engineer.

The Thornycrofts were the grandparents of Siegfried Sassoon, the war poet, through their daughter Theresa, who married Alfred Ezra Sassoon - I think these two sections could be combined because they both pertain to her life and are short or expand on them. You could just combine family into the Biography section MichaelBluth2020 (talk) 17:45, 6 March 2020 (UTC)MichaelBluth2020]