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19th C Italian Funerary Marble & Bronze Portraits, Husband & Wife Memento Mori
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Rare pair of funerary sculptures of a male and female likely husband and wife, carved in marble and housed in substantial cherry wood frames with ebonised slips.
Each portrait has a...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Busts
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Marble, Bronze
19th C Classical Plaster Bust Apollo by Louis Brugiotti London Grand Tour
By Louis Brugiotti
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fabulous 19th century oversized classical plaster bust of Apollo by Louis Brugiotti of 4 Leather Lane London 1845-1885, in original untouched condition.
89cm in height
60cm in w...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Busts
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Plaster
19thC Plaster Bust on Faux Porphyry Marble Column of Architect Matthew Habershon
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine plaster bust of the English architect Matthew Habershon (1789-1852). The bust sits on a faux painted porphyry marble column (plaster).
The bust taken from the original marbl...
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Antique 19th Century English Busts
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Plaster
19th Century Philanthropist Annie, Lady Jerningham Large Marble Bust W.R.Ingram
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A marble bust on typical waisted circular socle of Philanthropist Annie, Lady Jerningham
The bust was carved by R.W.Ingram around the last quarter of the 19th century and we beli...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Busts
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Marble
William Theed the Younger 1804-91 Marble Bust of William Ewart Gladstone 1868
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very finely carved marble bust of William Ewart Gladstone dated 1868 and signed W.Theed SC
William Theed was born in Staffordshire, his father, William Theed the elder being a sculptor and a craftsman at Wedgwood, known for his major work, Hercules and the Thracian Horses for one frontage of the Buckingham Palace complex. The younger Theed studied at the Royal Academy Schools, then worked for the sculptor E. H. Baily. Five years on, in 1826, he went to Rome, where he was to stay a total of 22 years, during that time working in the studios of Thorwaldson and John Gibson.
Returning to London in 1848, Theed enjoyed a good reputation, being a favoured sculptor of Queen Victoria, and was commissioned to produce many portrait statues, busts, and large monuments. He showed work in the 1851 Great Exhibition, and among other high points were a group for the Albert Memorial, and five standing figures on the Inland Revenue side of Somerset House, representing Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin.
Theed's statues may be seen in St Paul's (Henry Hallam), Manchester (Monument to Chetham in the Cathedral, Gladstone and Thomas Bright for the Town Hall, and James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens), Huddersfield (Robert Peel), Winchester (David Williams monument in the Cathedral), and Prince Albert statues for Grimsby, and in Australia in Macquairie Street, Sydney. He was also responsible for three of the portrait statues (Bacon, Locke, Adam Smith...
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Antique 1860s English Victorian Busts
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Marble
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