Giovanni Manzolini to become a figure painter, Manzolini joined Ercole Lelli's studio at the age of 40 to learn the art of anatomical sculpture. He was made Lelli's assistant in 1743. Under Lelli, Manzolini was made chief assistant on the papal commission to make wax models for the Anatomy Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, holding this position for three years. He resigned in late 1746. He felt bitterly that Lelli had deprived him of recognition for his greater knowledge of anatomy and anatomical sculpture. After leaving Lelli, Manzolini opened his own studio for wax modelling and launched a
Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick (1796-1882) was a Swedish lace industrialist. She lived in Vadstena, which had a long history of professional lace making. In the 18th-century, individual makers of bobbin lace sold their works to peddlers, but in the 19th-century, this small scale industry developed in to a lager industry dominated by Anna Elisabeth Hartwick and her main rival Catharina Lidman (1792-1856). Hartwick bought up lace from many of the lace makers of Vadstena and had them sold through her shop and through sails persons employed by her throughout the nation. Through her employee Catharina Andersdotter, she sold