A FRENCH SCULPTOR IN WILTSHIRE: HENRI DE TRIQUETI AT TEFFONT EVIAS 



45 



published by S.Thompson, with text by R Stanhope- 

 Worsley entitled Marmor Homericum designed and 

 executed by Henry de Triqueti (London: Day & Son, 

 1866). 

 39 The smaller tarsia panels represent : Minerva restraining 

 Achilles; The Departure of Odysseus from Calypso; 

 Priam asking Achilles for the body of Hector; and 

 Odysseus attacking the suitors of Penelope. The 

 allegorical figure on the left, from The Iliad, suspends 

 the shield of Minerva at the feet of Victory; the figure 

 on the right, from The Odyssey, is shown clinging to 

 a column after being shipwrecked with a statue of 

 Neptune above. 



40 See Elisabeth Darby & Nicola Smith The Cult of the 



Prince Consort (New Haven and London: Yale 

 University Press, 1983) chapters 1 and 2. 



41 An account of the Albert Memorial Chapel is given in 



Darby & Smith, The Cult of the Prince Consort, 30- 

 40. See also Philip Ward-Jackson 'The French 

 Background of Royal Monuments at Windsor and 

 Frogmore' /ourna./ of the Church Monuments Society 

 vol. VIII, 1993, 63-83. 

 4: Darby & Smith, The Cult of the Prince Consort, 32. 



43 Philip Ward-Jackson, 'The French Background', 67. 



44 Philip Ward-Jackson, 'The French Background', 70. 



Triqueti was to describe Prince Albert as 'the greatest 

 & best man he had ever known' , RA VIC/R40/75. 



45 S. Bellenger, 'Henri de Triqueti', 183-4. 



46 Glass mosaic by Antonio Salviati was used instead for 



the ceiling decoration. Darby & Smith, The Cult of 

 the Prince Consort, 32. 



47 RA PP /Windsor /526; RA VIC/R40/3 1,43,44. 



48 RA PP/VIC/Add/2145 Mrs Fane De Salis to Sir 



Thomas Biddulph 19 October 1864. 



49 Darby & Smith, The Cult of the Prince Consort, 110, 



note 85. Susan Durant, while working on the Albert 

 Memorial Chapel, arranged with Mrs Fane De Salis 

 to view her master's work atTeffont, possibly in 1866 

 RA VIC/Add X 2/85. (I am grateful to Mrs. Kelsey, 



Deputy Registrar at the Royal Archives for this 

 reference) . 



RA VIC/R40/43, 44; J. and M. Davison, The Triqueti 

 Marbles. 



RAPP/ Windsor/ 655. 



RA PP/ Windsor/ 740; RA PP /Windsor/ 790D. 



RAVIC/AddX/2 212/D. 



In addition to the tarsia panels and the cenotaph to 

 Prince Albert, Triqueti also executed the marble 

 benches under the panels, the reredos at the east end 

 of the chapel, and the figures representing the Angel 

 of Death and the Angel of the Resurrection for either 

 side of the west door : the latter two sculptures were 

 incomplete at the time of his death. 



RAVIC/R40/75. 



J. & M. Davison, The Triqueti Marbles, iii. 



The Art Journal, 1874, 368. 

 1 S. Bellenger,'Henri de Triqueti', 196 illustrates a 

 drawing for the memorial. 



The Salisbury Journal, 31 October 1863, 8. 

 1 Ibid. ; The Daily Telegraph, 31 January 1870; Wiltshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. 

 XII, 1872, 102. The latter commentator was writing 

 in relation to the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, 

 Wilton by T. H. Wyatt (1841-5), and expressed the 



hope that 'now that Triqueti and others have made 



the acquisition of this ornamental completion of 

 ceilings and walls both easy and inexpensive, it does 

 seem a matter of regret that some true lover or lovers 

 of the beauty of holiness should not take in hand the 

 introduction of mosaic into at least the central apse 

 of the church. . .'. In the early 20th century, the original 

 painted decoration was replaced by mosaic executed 

 by Gertrude Martin to the designs of Sir Charles 

 Nicholson, first in the central apse and later in the 

 south apse. Royal Commission on the Historical 

 Monuments of England. Churches of South-East 

 Wiltshire (London : HMSO, 1 987) 2 1 5, 2 1 7; Pevsner, 

 Wiltshire, 578. 



