On his return to London in 1770 he set up as a maker of busts and monuments at 9, Mortimer Street,[REF] where he built up a large practice.
Although he took great care over the modelling of the details of his sculptures, the marble versions were normally made by assistants, such as Sebastian Gahagan who carved Nollekens' statue of William Pitt for the Senate House at Cambridge,[REF] and L. Alexander Goblet.