“_Betew._ Ay, I know there were many very clever things produced there; what curious heads for canes they made at that manufactory; I think Crowther was the proprietor’s name. He has a very beautiful daughter who is married to Sir James Lake.[68] Nat Hone painted a portrait of her in the character of Diana, and it was one of his best pictures. There were some clever men who modelled for the Bow concern, and they produced several spirited figures--Quin in Falstaff; Garrick in Richard; Frederick Duke of Cumberland striding triumphantly over the Pretender, who is begging quarter of him; John Wilkes, and so forth. “_Nollekins._ Mr. Moser, who was keeper of our Academy, modelled several things for them; he was a chaser originally.” It will be perceived that Betew and Nollekins both speak of the Bow works as a thing of the past. And so they were; for in October, 1762, says the _London Chronicle_, “Mr. Weatherby, one of the proprietors of the Bow china warehouse in Cornhill, died at his house on Tower Hill, on the 15th October, 1762;” and, in the following year, 1763, his partner, “John Crowther, of Cornhill, china-man,” was gazetted a bankrupt. This bankruptcy, however (which was followed by that of “Benjamin Weatherby, of St. Catherine’s, merchant,” probably son of the above), appears only to have had reference to the London warehouse and business, and not to the manufactory at Bow. The stock was sold by auction, by order of the assignees of John Crowther, on March 12 and following days, and on May 19th and 30th, the two first at the Bow warehouse in Cornhill, and the last at the great exhibition room in Spring Gardens, and consisting, among other things, of “curious figures,” “girandoles,” “branches for chimney-pieces finely decorated with figures and flowers,” “dishes,” “compotiers,” “beautiful desserts of the fine old partridge and wheatsheaf patterns,” “knife and fork handles,” &c. John Crowther, however, it seems, retained and still, in his own name alone, carried on the manufactory at Bow, and after a time opened a warehouse in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which he continued to hold from 1770 to 1775, when he sold his entire concern--the works, moulds, tools, &c.--to Mr. William Duesbury, the proprietor of the Derby China Works.