English Sculptures

A wood and metal sculpture of a shoal of fish amongst lily pads by Martin Scorey, comprising ten white fish swimming amongst the stems of thirteen black waterlily pads, all raised on...

Dated 1904, this stoneware bust was made by late 19th century Doulton sculptor John Broad. It depicts Lewis John Eric Hooper, descendant of John Doulton who was founder of the famous Doulton & Co. of Lambeth, London. A barrister at the time, Hooper became Managing Director of the ceramics company from 1919 and subsequently Chairman from 1925. Here he is depicted in his barrister dress by the talented hand of Broad, giving us a glimpse into the character of Hooper as well as Broad’s artistic talent for statuary. The bust is in good condition, made in stoneware and sits on a wooden plinth detailed with plaque. This bust is likely a one-off commission. Broad was one of the most prominent artists of Doulton & Co. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specialising in large works, he had a talent for producing vases, statuary and portrait medallions. This stone bust of Lewis John Eric Hooper...

1960’s Very large industrial casting foundry mould (2310) 1960’s Very large industrial casting foundry mould – We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of Derwent Foundry on the...

1960s pair of very large industrial casting foundry moulds (2306) 1960s pair of very large industrial casting foundry moulds – We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of Derwen...

1960s Very Large Industrial Casting Foundry Mould (2302) 1960s Very large industrial casting foundry mould – We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of Derwent Foundry on the r...

1960s very large industrial casting foundry mould (2299) 1960s very large industrial casting foundry mould – We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of Derwent Foundry on the r...

1960s very large industrial casting foundry mould (2298) 1960s very large industrial casting foundry mould – We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of Derwent Foundry on the r...

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1960s Very large industrial casting foundry mould (Mould 1080.3) 1960s Very large industrial casting foundry mould (Mould 1080.3). We recently cleared the Victorian warehouses of ...

A delightful and highly decorative set of six coloured tinplate sports figures. As they have a kicking action we think they are possibly English or American footballers. If anyone kn...

A charming bust of a child’s head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, dated 1910, the girl has her head slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the reverse ‘E Whitney-Smith 1910’. This bronze is a reduction of Whitney-Smith’s original marble piece, a photograph of which survives in the V&A (object number AAD/1990/12/63). Another version can be seen in a 1920s photograph of the artist in his studio owned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x194201). Neither the identity of the sitter nor title of the work is known. Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880-1952) was one of the pre-eminent sculptors of his day. Born in Bristol in 1880, he became a student of William Harbutt, the headmaster of Bath School of Art, best remembered today for inventing plasticine. Whitney-Smith showed great promise from an early age, opening a studio in St John’s Wood, London, in 1910. He exhibited over 40 pieces at the Royal Academy and despite not achieving Academician status, even with list of illustrious proposers, he became a dear friend of Sir Alfred Munnings, the famous horse painter, and sculpted his portrait. He was, however, elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors and his works were generally well-received by critics and the general public alike. Aside from the RA, he exhibited in Bristol, at the Paris Salon and the Scottish Academy and his work attracted the attention of such important patrons as the Courtauld family. One of his most famous works, The Waking Child, is in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and another, The Irishman, is in the Tate. One version of his bust of Ernest Bevin, the trade unionist, stands in Tooley Street in Bermondsey to this day. An article in The Sphere, published on the 3rd of May 1924, referred to the sculptor as “a well-known sculptor of smiling children” and mentioned his “famous babies’ heads”.

A Victorian carved walnut figure of Mark Tapley from the novel ‘The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit’ by Charles Dickens’, wearing a soft top hat, a tailcoat and a buttoned w...

Heike Brachlow "Counterpoise", 2017 Glass; unique.