ii4 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



He painted figures, and arranged sphinxes to support a 

 beautiful column which Wedgwood had modelled. 

 "Stringer," wrote Wedgwood to Bentley (Nov. 1767), " is 

 now here ; he is good-natured, modest, and ingenious ; 

 and as he has a ready hand at drawing, we can sketch 

 out a vast number of pretty things, which may be laid 

 by to mature, till we can bring them into use. A manu- 

 facturer of ornamentals cannot have too great a store 

 of that sort." 



Burdett, a Liverpool artist, drew dead game for 

 Wedgwood; but he proved quarrelsome, and was 

 discharged. Theodore Parker, Spilsbury, and Shaw, 

 were amongst the decorative artists. Joseph Simon 

 was an excellent London enameller, and was employed 

 to decorate the Eussian Service. David Ehodes was, 

 however, Wedgwood's principal enameller. Chitaqua, 

 a Chinese modeller, took a likeness of Wedgwood, but 

 it does not appear that he was afterwards employed by 

 the firm. Wright, the Derby painter, assisted Wedgwood 

 with his pictures and illustrations ; he suggested, and 

 drew, or painted, " The Corinthian Maid," " Penelope un- 

 ravelling her Web," " Ulysses and Young Telemachus," 

 " The Lady in Comus," and other illustrations. 



Among Wedgwood's good enamellers were Denby 

 of Derby, who worked both at Etruria and Chelsea ; 

 and David Cooper of London, a flower - painter of 

 considerable merit. Wilcox, from the Worcester 

 porcelain works, together with his clever and in- 

 genious wife, was employed at Etruria, and gave every 



