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satisfaction. They were afterwards removed to Chelsea, 

 to take rank with the body of enamellers and decorators 

 employed at Wedgwood and Bentley's manufactory. 



Sufficient workmen and workwomen could not be 

 hired to supply the demand for Wedgwood's vases and 

 enamelled work. Art does not come by nature. Men 

 and women must be taught, and work hard before they 

 can attain success; and many, many are the failures. 

 We know of artists who have descended from landscape 

 painting to the selling of butter and cheese. "We 

 could not live by art," they said, " but we can make a 

 living by this humbler occupation." Wedgwood could 

 not find a Vase -maker, without careful training. 

 " Nay," said he, " I could not get a hand through the 

 whole Pottery to make a table-plate, without training 

 him up for that purpose." 



Again, Wedgwood writes to his friend : " A waking 

 notion haunts me very much of late, which is the 

 beginning of a regular drawing and modelling school to 

 train up artists for ourselves. I would pick up some 

 likely boys of about twelve years old, and take them as 

 apprentices until they are twenty or twenty-one, and 

 when they had made some tolerable proficiency, they 

 should practise with outlines of figures upon Vases 

 which I should send you to be filled up. . . . When you 

 wanted any hands, you could draft them out of this 

 School." 



Mrs. Wilcox, a very good painter of flowers, as well 

 as of figures, groups, and landscapes, was sent from 



