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J. B. Leyland
Joseph Bentley Leyland, born in Halifax 1811, sculpted Kilmeny. He started working in 1827
Photograph of the sculpture of Kilmeny at Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Leyland had visited London in the December of 1833Photograph of the sculpture of Kilmeny at Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
At the age of twenty-one, J. B. Leyland modelled a statue of great size. It was of Spartacus, the Thracian hero. The statue was displayed at the Manchester Exhibition of 1832. It was said to be the most striking work of art on display, and a work far beyond the sculptor's age. This praise heralded the arrival of a young genius. This youthful sculptor and poet was one of a group of young Yorkshire artists and writers who had emerged in the late Georgian and early Victorian period. They met regularly at the George Hotel, Bradford where they would discuss and criticize each other's literary and artistic offerings in a convivial atmosphere. Branwell Brontë was a member of this group. This article looks at the life and work of J. B. Leyland — 'flawed genius'.
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Leyland visited Haworth
In the May of 1842, Leyland was commissioned to execute certain monuments for Haworth and its neighbourhood; and, on the 15th of that month, Branwell wrote to him, in reference to a design for a monument which he had sent for submission to a committee of which the Rev. P. Bronte was chairman, and invited him to the parsonage on the 20th of the month, being sure his father would be pleased to see him. Leyland visited Haworth and partook of Mr. Bronte's hospitality; and in the evening, accompanied by the incumbent and his son, appeared before the monument committee.
Lord Brotherton's collection of manuscripts by members of the Brontë family was strongest in those of the ill-fated Branwell. They include his Letters from an Englishman in six miniature volumes, Caractacus. A Dramatic Poem, his translation of Horace's Odes, numerous Angrian prose fragments and his extraordinary illustrated letters to J. B. Leyland.
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This 'life size' medallion portrait, created in 1845 by the Halifax sculptor and Branwell's friend, J. B. Leyland, remains to give us an accurate impression of Branwell's appearance. Leyland's brother stated that 'the likeness was perfect'. The original is on display in the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Leyland visited Haworth
In the May of 1842, Leyland was commissioned to execute certain monuments for Haworth and its neighbourhood; and, on the 15th of that month, Branwell wrote to him, in reference to a design for a monument which he had sent for submission to a committee of which the Rev. P. Bronte was chairman, and invited him to the parsonage on the 20th of the month, being sure his father would be pleased to see him. Leyland visited Haworth and partook of Mr. Bronte's hospitality; and in the evening, accompanied by the incumbent and his son, appeared before the monument committee.
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Lord Brotherton's collection of manuscripts by members of the Brontë family was strongest in those of the ill-fated Branwell. They include his Letters from an Englishman in six miniature volumes, Caractacus. A Dramatic Poem, his translation of Horace's Odes, numerous Angrian prose fragments and his extraordinary illustrated letters to J. B. Leyland.
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history.rootsweb/ biography
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