Details of Sculptor

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Surname	Chamberlain	Alternative Surname
First Name	Richard, of Newark	Initial of Surname	C
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1809-25
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He signs a ‘charming’ altar tomb with a well-carved urn to Sarah Thompson at Winthorpe (1). Her epitaph begins: ‘This monitor of human instability’ which Gunnis regarded as a charming, but unexpected, way to begin a valedictory inscription (Gunnis 1968, 90). The monument to the Maltby family also makes use of an urn on a table, but with tapering columns as legs and a sarcophagus beneath (2).