DELAVILLE (D.1846)

James Delaville (d. 1846) began as a modeller for Joseph Nollekens, R A. (d. 1823). He traded in Newport Street and later in the Strand as a plaster figure maker, lamp manufacturer and phrenologist. See T. Clifford 'The Plaster Shops of the Rococo and Neo-classical Era in Britian,' Journal of the History of Collections 4 No. 1, 1992, p.45, fig.5