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JOHN DANIEL MORELL (1816-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:DANIEL See also:MORELL (1816-1891)  , See also:British educationalist, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:June at Little Baddow, See also:Essex, where his See also:father was See also:minister of the Congregational See also:church (1799—1852) . He proceeded to Homerton See also:College in 1833, where he studied See also:theology under Dr See also:Pye See also:Smith . He then entered See also:Glasgow University, where he took his M.A. degree in 1841 . Subsequently he studied See also:philosophy and theology under See also:Fichte at See also:Bonn, and returned to See also:England to undertake the pastorate of the Congregational church at See also:Gosport . After three years' See also:work, he decided to give up the See also:ministry in favour of philosophical work . As See also:early as 1846 he made his name by his See also:Historical and See also:Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of See also:Europe in the Nineteenth See also:Century, which brought him to the See also:notice of See also:Lord See also:Lansdowne, who made him an inspector of See also:schools . From 1848 till 1876 he was active in this capacity . As a result of his experience he published numerous educational See also:works, e.g . The See also:Analysis of Sentences (1852), The Essentials of See also:English See also:Grammar and Analysis (1855), Handbook of See also:Logic (1855), Grammar of the English See also:Language (1857) . He also published four lectures on The Philosophical Tendencies of the See also:Age (1848), The Philosophy of See also:Religion (1849), Fichte's Contributions to Moral Philosophy (1860), Philosophical Fragments (1878), An Introduction to See also:Mental Philosophy on the Inductive Method (1884) . He died on the 1st of See also:April 1891 . See also:MOREL-LADEUIL, LEONARD (1820-r888), See also:French See also:gold-smith and sculptor, was born at Clermont-See also:Ferrand .

He was apprenticed first to Morel, a manufacturer of bronzes, under whom he became one of the most See also:

expert chasers, or ciseleurs, in See also:France, and then to See also:Antoine Vechte, to acquire the See also:art of repousse (q.v.)—the art in which he was to excel . He studied further under J . J . Feuchere and then attracted the notice of the See also:comte d'Orsay and the duc de See also:Morny, through whose recommendation the French See also:government, desirous of popularizing the See also:idea of the new Imperialism, commissioned him to produce the See also:Empire See also:Shield." See also:Napoleon III. notified his warm approval, but the See also:trade, annoyed that a ' craftsman should obtain commissions See also:direct, resented the ' innovation and thenceforward boycotted the See also:young artist, whose beautiful and poetic See also:vase, " See also:Dance of the See also:Willis " (the See also:spirits dancing See also:round the vase, above the See also:lake represented on a dish below) none 'would take . He was encouraged. nevertheless by a See also:foreign dealer in See also:Paris, Marchi, who employed him on statuettes, mainly religious in See also:character, until 1859, when Messrs Eikington, in .view of the See also:great See also:exhibition of 1862, engaged him to work in See also:Birmingham for three years in iepousse, assuring him a See also:free See also:hand . Following his See also:silver " See also:Night came " See also:Day, and then the " Inventions " vase, which placed him at once at the See also:top of his profession . This was followed by the beautiful See also:plateau called " Dreams," which was subscribed for (£15oo) by Birmingham as the See also:town See also:wedding-See also:gift to the See also:prince and princess of See also:Wales . Morel-Ladeuil's See also:contract was then renewed for five years, but as a See also:matter of fact he remained with the See also:firm for twenty-three years at their See also:London See also:house, the first result being his masterpiece the " See also:Milton Shield: See also:Paradise Lost " (in repousse See also:steel and silver), which was the sensation of the Paris Exhibition . It was bought by the English government for £3000, and thousands of copies made by " galvanoplastie " or electrotype were sold and spread all over the See also:world . Then after " The Months " came another masterpiece, the " See also:Helicon Vase," in steel, silver, and gold, priced at £60oo, which in course of See also:time was presented by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal house to See also:Queen See also:Victoria on her first See also:jubilee: For the See also:Philadelphia Exhibition (1876) Morel-Ladeuil produced " A Pompeian See also:Lady at her See also:Toilet," following it in 1878 with the " See also:Bunyan Shield," a See also:companion to the Milton . After putting forth his reliefs " The Merry Wives of See also:Windsor," " The See also:Merchant of See also:Venice," and " Much See also:Ado about Nothing," in view of his failing See also:health he retired to See also:Boulogne, where he died of angina pectoris on the 15th of See also:March 1888, and was buried with much ceremony at Clermont-Ferrand . His See also:total work, apart from the productions of his youth, See also:numbers 35 pieces, which richly reveal his elegant and refined See also:fancy and See also:grace, his feeling for correct and dainty See also:ornament, and his love of pure art marked by an elevated if rather sentimental See also:taste and a See also:noble See also:style .

See L' Euvre de Morel-Ladeuil, sculpteur-ciseleur, by L . Morel (Paris, 1904) .

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