• 1759-63

Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet (1675-1758), had been a barrister at the Inner Temple and MP for Derbyshire. Following his death in 1758, his eldest son, Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet, commissioned a funerary monument from Robert Adam who, from 1759, was working on his country seat at Kedleston Hall. The monument was executed according to Adam's design by Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770) who signed and dated his work 1763. The monument is to be found in the north transept of All Saints' Church, at Kedleston, a cruciform twelfth-century structure which contains Curzon family monuments dating back to the twelfth century, and is all that survives of the old village.

See also: Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire; Mansfield Street, number 5

Literature:
A. T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume I, pp. 243-44, Volume II, Index, p. 19; N. Pevsner, and E. Williamson, The buildings of England: Derbyshire, 1978, pp. 253-54; K. Eustace, 'Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Michael Rysbrack and the Hopetoun chimneypiece', Burlington Magazine, Volume 139, Number 1136, November 1997, p. 749; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume I, pp. 363-65

Frances Sands, 2011

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