Joseph Gott (Leeds 1786- Rome 1860)

A COMPANION OF ULYSSES, AFTER THE ANTIQUE BUST IN THE TOWNLEY COLLECTION, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LATE 18TH CENTURY. Statuary Marble. This bust is a late 18th century English co...

EDWARD HODGES BAILY (1788-1867) SLEEPING NYMPH incised signature and date E H Baily, R.A. / Sculp. London / 1840 Statuary marble.

A fine regency bronzed plaster figure of a vestal bearing a lamp by Thomas hopper, circa 1807. Signed H. HOPPER LONDON JULY 6 1807. With its origin...

A FINE REGENCY BRONZED PLASTER FIGURE OF A VESTAL BEARING A LAMP BY THOMAS HOPPER, CIRCA 1807. Signed H. HOPPER LONDON JULY 6 1807. With its original bronze lamp fitting and fine b...

This exquisite 19th-century French sculpture, crafted from white marble or a similar material, beautifully captures a young dancer or muse in a moment of graceful movement. The figur...

Item: sculpture ruth Author: g.B.Lombardi (italian, 1823-1880) Special features: signed and dated 'gb. Lomardi / f. Roma / 1869' and carved to the front 'ruth' In 1852, Giovanni...

'Moses and Jochebed - A Fine Patinated Bronze Figural Group After A Model by 'François Truphème', Cast by 'Thiebaut Frères'. Signed 'Fois Truphème 1863' and 'fdu par Vor Thiebaut'....

Scipione Tadolini was a skilled sculptor whose broad talent covered the neoclassic to the romantic movements. His ancestors from a dynasty of Roman sculptors exerted a profound and lasting influence on the artistic production of the Eternal City. The Greek Slave fully demonstrates his masterly talent and serves as a reminder of antique models and the orientalist influences characterising the second half of the 19th century. Scipione Tadolini graduated from the Roman Academy and worked with his father on a series of celebrated portraits and ecclesiastical sculptures for Roman churches including a bust of Cardinal Giuseppe Alberghini for the Gesù (1847) and portraits of various members of the Cini family for the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle (1844, 1846). Tadolini is also known as the author of a number of large-scale monuments for patrons around the world including an equestrian group of Simon Bolivar for the city of Lima, Peru. One of his best known sculptures is The Greek Slave which appears in his work from the late 1850s forward.The Greek Slave was created in several sizes in two variations: with the figure’s hand either raised to her chest or to her chin. The small number of versions all indicate the sculptor’s careful attention to the human form and passion with exoticism, which can be noticed through the tumbling folds of the present figure's headdress and the finely articulated jewellery...