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Surname	Atkins	Alternative Surname	Adkins
First Name	John	Initial of Surname	A
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1737	Flourished	1761-77
Year of Death
Biographical Details	On 3 April 1761 he received a premium of 30 guineas from the Society of Arts for a relief in stone of Regulus returning to Carthage in the under-25 class (2). He exhibited it the same year at the Society of Free Artists. Atkins was a pupil of L F Roubiliac and his name is noted on the list of those attending the latter’s funeral in 1762. He then became assistant to Joseph Wilton and, according to J T Smith, it was Atkins and Nathaniel Smith who modelled and carved the statues on Somerset House for which Wilton received the payment and the credit. Literary References: Press Cuttings 1723-1800, fol 107; RSA Register, 1778, 31; Dossie 1782, 439; Smith 1828, 2, 178; Gunnis 1968, 21; Whinney 1988, 267; Bindman and Baker 1995, 221