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(2) Prince Hoare I
(b ?nr Eye, Suffolk, c. 1711; d Bath, 5 Nov 1769). Sculptor, brother of (1) William Hoare. He trained under Peter Scheemakers (ii) in London, after which he followed his brother to Bath. There he received a number of commissions, both for monuments and for busts—for example the marble bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1741; London, Ranger’s House). Hoare was in Italy for much of the 1740s, returning to Bath in 1749; two years later he married a wealthy heiress, although he continued his career as a sculptor. In 1759 he made a number of statues for Henry Hoare (i) the younger at Stourhead, Wilts, and in 1760–62 he carved chimney-pieces for Corsham Court, Wilts. He remained active principally as a sculptor of busts and monuments: in 1761, for example, he made a bust of Richard ‘Beau’ Nash (Bath, Guildhall) and a church monument to the poet Alexander Pope (Twickenham, London, St Mary).
Part of the Hoare (ii) family
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