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The Sleeping Children is a marble sculpture by Francis Chantrey. The statue depicts Ellen-Jane and Marianne Robinson asleep in each other’s arms on a bed. The statue was commissioned by the mother of the two children also named Ellen-Jane Robinson whose daughters had died in 1813 and 1814.The statue was placed in the south east corner of Lichfield Cathedral in 1817 where it remains today.
