[5] The sculptures he made in Rome included a marble of Timocles Before Alexander, for which he was awarded fifty guineas by the Society of Arts, and busts of Laurence Sterne and David Garrick, who were visiting the city.

[6] On his return to London in 1770 he set up as a maker of busts and monuments at 9, Mortimer Street,[2] where he built up a large practice.

Faith, a sculpture commissioned by Henry Howard following the death of his wife Maria in 1788 in childbirth at Corby Castle, is said to be Nollekens' finest work.

[7] Although he took great care over the modelling of the details of his sculptures, the marble versions were normally made by assistants,[8] such as Sebastian Gahagan who carved Nollekens' statue of William Pitt for the Senate House, Cambridge,[9] and L. Alexander Goblet.

[8] Painted around that time, his portrait by the celebrated artist Mary Moser now hangs in the Yale Center for British Art.