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Prior to 1848 ,. indeed , the public did not possess anything worthy the name of a biography , owing , it may be , to the fact that those who had undertaken to produce such a work had not sufficient materials at their command , nor facility of access to sources from which alone those materials could be obtained ; and in more recent times , the amount of research necessary for compiling the history of an individual who lived and flourished nearly three hundred years ago , has no doubt deterred many modern writers from encountering the task , to whom it would otherwise have been a labour of love . Be that as it may , the biographies of Inigo Jones were little more than echoes of one another , until the publication of his life by the
Shaksperian Society , from the pen of Peter Cunningham , Esq ., than whom no living writer is better qualified for a work demanding talent , learning , and antiquarian research . This biography is rendered the more valuable by the insertion of facts previously omitted , and by liberal quotations from documents which had been overlooked or unemployed ; and to the material thus introduced we are
considerably indebted for the information which enables us to present to our readers the following sketch of an illustrious member of the Masonic Brotherhood , whose studies and acquirements embraced all branches of art immediately or remotely connected with the profession to which he was so zealously attached . Like many of our most eminent men , Inigo Jones may be called
the architect of his own fortune and fame . His father , Inigo Jones , who is supposed to have been a "Welshman , was a cloth-worker residing in "West Smithfield , London , where the future artist was born in 1573 , and the parish register of St . Bartholomew-the-Less records his baptism on 19 th July of that year . Of his early life and education there exists but little information which can be at all relied on : _ „ -. ^ ~^ k , ~~ « **~ w * w . » U . « . vr j-U . * t * . wj . vr . UL . ., u u w *^ . ^~ v *« *»* . * . * v , o . ^ v * « .
^ , , but we may be justified in inferring , from the indifferent share his father seems to have enjoyed of this world ' s wealth , and from the fact of his having a rather numerous family to support , that Inigo was indebted for his acquirements more to his own tastes and exertions than to any liberal or expensive course of training he had afforded him . The elder Jones died in 1597 , when the son was in
his twenty-fourth year . It is said , and with some claim to probability , that the future architect was originally apprenticed to a joiner ; but be that as it may , it is certain he was early distinguished for his taste and skill in drawing and designing , particularly " in the practice of landscape drawing . " This early-formed taste appears to have attracted the favourable notice of those able and willing to encourage the development of his latent genius , and to have secured him
valuable patrons . Indeed , it has been generally asserted , that he was sent to study painting in Italy , under the auspices afrd at the charge of Lord Arundel ; but although there is no direct contradiction of this statement , yet in the account he gives of himself , in his work on Stonehenge , there is nothing to corroborate its truth—an omission somewhat surprising if the report were well founded . In any event it is very evident that he did " pass into foreign parts , " in
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Prior to 1848 ,. indeed , the public did not possess anything worthy the name of a biography , owing , it may be , to the fact that those who had undertaken to produce such a work had not sufficient materials at their command , nor facility of access to sources from which alone those materials could be obtained ; and in more recent times , the amount of research necessary for compiling the history of an individual who lived and flourished nearly three hundred years ago , has no doubt deterred many modern writers from encountering the task , to whom it would otherwise have been a labour of love . Be that as it may , the biographies of Inigo Jones were little more than echoes of one another , until the publication of his life by the
Shaksperian Society , from the pen of Peter Cunningham , Esq ., than whom no living writer is better qualified for a work demanding talent , learning , and antiquarian research . This biography is rendered the more valuable by the insertion of facts previously omitted , and by liberal quotations from documents which had been overlooked or unemployed ; and to the material thus introduced we are
considerably indebted for the information which enables us to present to our readers the following sketch of an illustrious member of the Masonic Brotherhood , whose studies and acquirements embraced all branches of art immediately or remotely connected with the profession to which he was so zealously attached . Like many of our most eminent men , Inigo Jones may be called
the architect of his own fortune and fame . His father , Inigo Jones , who is supposed to have been a "Welshman , was a cloth-worker residing in "West Smithfield , London , where the future artist was born in 1573 , and the parish register of St . Bartholomew-the-Less records his baptism on 19 th July of that year . Of his early life and education there exists but little information which can be at all relied on : _ „ -. ^ ~^ k , ~~ « **~ w * w . » U . « . vr j-U . * t * . wj . vr . UL . ., u u w *^ . ^~ v *« *»* . * . * v , o . ^ v * « .
^ , , but we may be justified in inferring , from the indifferent share his father seems to have enjoyed of this world ' s wealth , and from the fact of his having a rather numerous family to support , that Inigo was indebted for his acquirements more to his own tastes and exertions than to any liberal or expensive course of training he had afforded him . The elder Jones died in 1597 , when the son was in
his twenty-fourth year . It is said , and with some claim to probability , that the future architect was originally apprenticed to a joiner ; but be that as it may , it is certain he was early distinguished for his taste and skill in drawing and designing , particularly " in the practice of landscape drawing . " This early-formed taste appears to have attracted the favourable notice of those able and willing to encourage the development of his latent genius , and to have secured him
valuable patrons . Indeed , it has been generally asserted , that he was sent to study painting in Italy , under the auspices afrd at the charge of Lord Arundel ; but although there is no direct contradiction of this statement , yet in the account he gives of himself , in his work on Stonehenge , there is nothing to corroborate its truth—an omission somewhat surprising if the report were well founded . In any event it is very evident that he did " pass into foreign parts , " in