Around 1733 Nicholas Read was born.
From 1750 Nicholas Read [aged 17] became an apprentice to Louis Francois Roubiliac [aged 47]; the only apprentice Roubiliac, who had vowed not to take apprentices, ever had.
In 1762 Nicholas Read [aged 29] won a "premium" of 100 guineas from the Society of Arts for a marble figure of Actaeon and his dog.
On 11th January 1762 Louis Francois Roubiliac [aged 59] died. He was buried in St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. His funeral was attended by Joshua Reynolds [aged 38] among many others. His apprentice Nicholas Read [aged 29] took over his studio at 66 St Martin's Lane.
On 18th September 1764 Anne Jacobsen Lady Morgan [aged 50] died. She was buried at St James' Church, Kinnersley [Map] where her uncle Theodore Jacobsen commissioned a monument by Nicholas Read [aged 31].
Anne Jacobsen Lady Morgan: In 1714 she was born to Jacob Jacobsen of Walthamstow, Essex and Ann Heathcote. On 17th December 1750 John Morgan 4th Baronet and she were married. She by marriage Lady Morgan of Langattock in Monmouthshire.
From 1780 Nicholas Read [aged 47] "lost his reason" ie had mental health problems.
On 11th July 1787 Nicholas Read [aged 54] died. His will was read the next day.
