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Item Ships From: England
The Line by Neil Wood Figurative Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Neil Wood
Located in DE
Neil Wood is a professional sculptor and fine artist with many years' experience lecturing in fine art and sculpture at institutions in the UK. He has worked in various settings; in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A late 19th century bronze animalier figure of a seated hound
By Prince Paul Troubetzkoy
Located in Bath, Somerset
A late 19th century bronze of a hound, seated on a naturalistic base, after Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. Incised to base 'Paolo Troubetzkoy 1893', with a dark brown patina.
Born in 1866...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Holiday, Thailand. -Complete Set Of 3 By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Holiday, Thailand. -Complete Set Of 3
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture ic...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt
conceived in 1955; cast in 1955
bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London
19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
Category
1950s Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
DRINKING HORSE VI by Tom Hiscocks - horse sculpture stainless steel
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: stainless steel.
Edition of 8
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Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores themes of identity...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Artemis a unique Bronze sculpture
Located in Tetbury, GB
Artemis by British sculptor and founder Damon Price.
The work is an original direct casting , therefor unique, Bronze sculpture depicting Artemis the Greek goddess of the Hunt and Wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Gardener with Sunflower
By Patrick O'Reilly
Located in Belfast, GB
Patrick O'Reilly
The Gardener with Sunflower
Bronze
47 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 15 3/4 in
120 x 125 x 40 cm
This piece is entitled The Gardener with Sunflower. It is a large scale outdoor scu...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
OCTAVE CIRCLE II - contemporary phosphorus bronze sculpture
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: Bronze on stainless steel base
Edition of 5
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Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores them...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Bronze
Objet d'Amour HR47 - Ceramic, Porcelain, Resin
By Sandra Shashou
Located in London, GB
Sandra Shashou
Objet d'Amour HR47, 2022
Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and Aynsley Rose Posy Vintage Porcelain, Jesmonite and Resin
60 x 62 x 38 cm
23 5/8 x 24 3/8 x 15 in
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Resin
$19,595 Sale Price
20% Off
Grayson Perry - Portrait Plate 3
By Grayson Perry
Located in London, GB
bone china with lustre rim
21 cm diameter
Grayson Perry hallmark on the back.
These decorative plates are inspired by the artwork The Great Beauty, 2024. The original piece is a cab...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
A Private Meeting by Neil Wood Figurative Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Neil Wood
Located in DE
Neil Wood is a professional sculptor and fine artist with many years' experience lecturing in fine art and sculpture at institutions in the UK. He has worked in various settings; in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jacob Epstein, 1950, Madonna and Child, lead sculpture, signed, British
By Sir Jacob Epstein
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jacob Epstein (British / American 1880 – 1959)
Madonna and Child, 1950
Sculpture (lead with bronze halos)
34cm.
In a bespoke carved oak devotional niche
Signed ‘Epstein’ (on the reve...
Category
20th Century Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
KAWS, Holiday Indonesia Figure (Black)
By KAWS
Located in Manchester, GB
KAWS, Holiday Indonesia Figure (Black), 2023
Vinyl with certified NFC chip of authenticty
12.70 x 17.81 x 29.21 cm
Open edition
KAWS: HOLIDAY INDONESIA is a vinyl figure by KAW...
Category
2010s Pop Art England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
The Spectacle An original Bronze sculpture depicting playing Greyhounds
Located in Tetbury, GB
A joyous sculpture depicting Greyhounds at play, on a slate base and finished in a lovely blue/ verdigris patina.
Jane is passionate about capturing the overall essence and movement...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Magdalena II by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of a female nude figure
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Magdalena II is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Tall and elongated, with throws hanging from outstretched arms, this is a beautiful piece. The slender figu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
REARING HORSE II by Tom Hiscocks - horse sculpture stainless steel
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: stainless steel.
Edition of 8
____________________________________________________________________________
Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores themes of identity...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Fae – Victoria by Nando Kallweit. Bronze Sculpture, Edition of 50
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Fae – Victoria is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Inspired by the the legend of the phoenix, this female figure has graceful wings instead of arms. The pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Coca Cola) By AI Weiwei
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
Untitled (Coca Cola)
By AI Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a renowned Chinese contemporary artist and activist whose diverse body of work spans sculpture, installations, and social commentary...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Bird II (Light), 2024 - Minimalist Contemporary Bronze Bird Sculpture
By Emma Maiden
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Emma Maiden has exhibited her sculptures throughtout the UK since the mid-1990s, with shows including The Fine Art Society, London; the RWA Bristol; West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Giulia a Cavallo. By Nando Kallweit. Bronze sculpture of a woman and her horse
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Giulia a cavallo, or Julia on a horse, is a striking bronze sculpture featuring a stylized, elongated nude female figure seated atop a horse, embodying an essence of surreal simplici...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Swan Thing By David Shrigley
By David Shrigley
Located in London, GB
Swan Thing
By David Shrigley
David Shrigley is a British artist known for his distinctive and often humorous approach to contemporary art. His work spans a variety of mediums, inc...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Frannie by Nando Kallweit. A figurative bronze sculpture of a nude woman
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Neile is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture of a female nude by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the sty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
T Love - Donald Trump
Located in London, GB
Joan Cornella
T-Love, 2025
vinyl sculpture
edition of 200
printed signature
Over the last decade, Joan Cornellà skyrocketed to internet fame with absurd, disturbing cartoons that ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Balloon Dog (Yellow )
By Jeff Koons
Located in Manchester, GB
Jeff Koons, Yellow Balloon Dog, 1995-2002
Porcelain with original box and plastic stand
26.7 × 26.7 × 12.7 cm (10 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 5 in)
Edition of 2300
Jeff Koons released Balloon...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A 19th century French animalier bronze of a greyhound
By Joseph Francois Victor Chemin
Located in Bath, Somerset
A late 19th century bronze figure of a greyhound, his front leg raised and head turned backwards as he grooms his coat. A finely detailed figure with a dark brown patina, mounted on ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Neile by Nando Kallweit. An elegant figurative bronze sculpture of a nude woman
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Neile is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture of a female nude by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the sty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rhea by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rhea is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elin by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elin is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
This evocative bronze sculpture captures the serene grace of a figure in a lotus yoga pose, projecting a powerful s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
I-Scream Kelly Sculpture (Red) -limited edition iconic pop art-contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Step into the imaginative world of "I-Scream Kelly Sculpture (R...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass
Piggy Bank
By Grayson Perry
Located in London, GB
Grayson Perry
Piggy Bank, 2017
White ceramic piggy bank painted in blue and glazed, with a rubber stopper, contained in the original cardboard box....
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$1,216 Sale Price
34% Off
Modern Artifact 001 - NY Baseball Cap
By Daniel Arsham
Located in London, GB
Daniel Arsham
Modern Artifact 001, 2021
plaster and cast resin
12.7 (h) x 19.5 cm (dia.)
Edition of 500
Daniel Arsham's Eroded Series is a captivating exploration of time, memory, a...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plaster
Star Gazer, Unique Cast Bronze Horse
By Danusia Wurm
Located in Brecon, Powys
Using the lost wax technique, all Danuta's bronzes are one-off originals
Free standing. Rests on carbonised oak block
"The ripped raw edges of Elizabeth Frink...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Girl in the Clouds" porcelain ceramic sculpture of woman riding a horse
By Katharine Morling
Located in Dallas, TX
"Girl in the Clouds”, by ceramic dynamo Katharine Morling is a porcelain free standing sculpture, depicting an woman riding a horse. She wears a crown made of textile as they maneuve...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Slip, Ink, Textile
$4,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Touching Victory
By Maurice Blik
Located in Tetbury, GB
Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Blik is an Anglo-Dutch artist whose work is exhibited at major London and international art fairs. Having spent the majority of his 40-year career creating...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th century Grand Tour bronze of the Dancing Faun
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 19th century 'Grand Tour' bronze figure of the Dancing Faun, standing on a bronze square plinth. The faun balances on his toes and pivots, his horned head raised, his hair wreathe...
Category
Late 19th Century England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Debora Lima-original figurative female dancers bronze sculpture-contemporary Art
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 8
"Debora Lima" stands as a capti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Second Portrait of Kathleen 1922 - British head shoulders bronze sculpture
By Sir Jacob Epstein
Located in London, GB
This stunning British bronze sculpture is by world famous sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein. It was conceived in 1922 and is the second portrait of Kathleen Garman (1901-1979), Epstein's lo...
Category
1920s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Holiday, Thailand. Grey By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Holiday, Thailand. Grey
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture iconography. Ren...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
B6 Pull
By Neil Wood
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Neil Wood (.1963) is a professional sculptor and fine artist . He has many years experience lecturing in fine art and sculpture at institutions in the UK. He has worked in various settings; in education, as artist in residence and visiting lecturer, alongside his practice producing sculpture for exhibition and public commissions.
He employs a Modernist methodology to explore the human condition in the 21st century. He continues to use the figure as a vehicle to explore formal material qualities and visual language as a means of expressing, often complex, ideas about the world we inhabit and the nature of human experience and relationships. Recent work explores social and political injustices inflicted on the underprivileged and displaced worldwide.
These constructed steel sculptures, finished with an electrostatic powder coating are continuation of the Displaced series. They attempt to express physical representations of the conceptual burdens or challenges that are part of the human condition and experience.
Displaced is a body of work, comprising sculptures, relief panels and works on paper. It aims to explore a general theme of inequality imposed by circumstances. I’m attempting to convey an emotional response to various humanitarian challenges of the twenty-first century, albeit by employing a mid-twentieth century aesthetic and sculptural tradition. The works focus on individual relationships, families...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$1,023 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century bronze sculpture of the poet Tyrtee (Tyrtaeus)
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Emile Laporte
French, (1858-1907)
Tyrtée or Tyrtaeus
Bronze, signed
Height: 19 inches (48.5cm)
Width: 7.5 inches (19cm)
Depth: 6 inches (15cm)
Emile Laporte was born in Paris on Nov...
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Summer Bird II (Large), 2023 - Bold Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of Bird
By Emma Maiden
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Emma Maiden has exhibited her sculptures throughtout the UK since the mid-1990s, with shows including The Fine Art Society, London; the RWA Bristol; West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Luna by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Luna has a minimalist yet powerful design, featuring an elongated female figure poised with arms outstretched. Dominating the composition is a circular disc representing the moon in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Brothers by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Brothers is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Two male figures as a single piece. A sculpture that reflects the strength of male relationships and the i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Boxer
By Patrick O'Reilly
Located in Belfast, GB
The Boxer
Bronze
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 31 1/2 in
200 x 200 x 80 cm
Edition 1/1 (S)
This piece is entitled The Boxer. It is a large scale outdoor sculpture. The running bear is a common theme in his work as he is remembers his childhood teddy bear.
Patrick O’Reilly...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$141,774
Indian Art Pottery Buddha Large Charger Swans Flowers Art India 19th Century
Located in Norfolk, GB
A fabulous and rare large 19th century Bombay Pottery Charger from the J J School of Art, depicting scenes of Buddha from the Ajanta caves.
Bombay Scho...
Category
1870s Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Terracotta, Paint, Glaze
ANCIENT ROMAN MARBLE ALTAR FRAGMENT, 1ST/2ND CENTURY A.D.
Located in Milan, IT
Roman Marble Altar fragment from the 1st/2nd Century A.D. with the typical element of Roman rituals.
Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris...
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Ancient Roman Marble Altar Fragment with Cupid, Roman Empire, 2nd/3rd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Roman marble altar fragment with cupid
Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mini Mori Girl By Yoshitomo Nara
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in London, GB
Mini Mori Girl
By Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese contemporary artist acclaimed for his evocative and emotive depictions of children, often characterized by their larg...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood
Dark Clays I, Original Ceramic Sculpture, 3D Wall Art, Edmund De Waal Style Art
By Emma Bell
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece is inspired by my glaze test vessels. As a potter, I am always staggered by how different the same/similar glaze turns out on different clay bodies when it has been fired....
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Evi by Nando Kallweit. Elegant limited edition bronze sculpture, Edition of 25
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Evi is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Nando carved the marque for the body from a piece of oak using a small chain saw. The marque is then used to make th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marie de' Medici
By Mathurin Moreau
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Mathurin Moreau 1822-1912, was a French sculptor in the classic academic style. His father was also a sculptor and his siblings. Mathurin first received a medal at the Salon in 1848,...
Category
Late 19th Century England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Robot
By Nam June Paik
Located in London, GB
Mixed metal multiple with lightbulb, 1990, signed in black ink, dated, numbered from an edition of 91 unique works, published by Edition Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar, Germany, height: 5...
Category
1990s Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$25,174
Gilbert Ledward - 1930s Watercolour Design for a Decorative Sculptural Frieze
Located in London, GB
GILBERT LEDWARD, RA, PRBS
(1888-1960)
Tennis, Golf, Shooting, Ice-Skating, Dreaming – Proposed Design for Decorative Frieze in the Italian Drawing Room at Eltham Palace, commissioned by Stephen Courtauld
Signed and dated July 9th 1933
Watercolour and pencil
12.5 by 49.5 cm., 5 by 19 ½ in.
(frame size 36 by 67 cm., 14 ¼ by 26 ¼ in.)
Exhibited:
The artist’s daughter;
London, The Fine Art Society, A Centenary Tribute, Feb 1988, no. 43.
Gilbert Ledward was born in London. He was educated at St Mark’s College, Chelsea. In 1905 he entered the Royal College of Art to study sculpture under Edouard Lanteri and in 1910 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture, the Royal Academy’s travelling award and gold medal, which allowed him to travel in Italy until the outbreak of the Wold War I. During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was appointed as an official war artist in 1918.
Following the war he was largely occupied as a sculptor of war memorials including the Guards Division memorial in St James’s Park and the Household Division’s memorial in Horse Guards Parade. In 1934, supported by Eric Gill and Edwin Lutyens, he established a company called Sculptured Memorials and Headstones, which promoted better design of memorials in English churchyards. His war memorials after World War II include one in Westminster Abbey to the Submarine Service, Commandos and Airborne Forces.
Ledward was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1927-1929) and in 1937 was elected at Royal Academician. He became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy.
The present work is a design for an intended decorative frieze for the Italian Drawing Room of Eltham Palace. In 1935 the remains of the medieval royal palace of Eltham was rescued from decay by Stephen and Virginia Courtald who built an ultra modern Art Deco house to adjoin the existing Great Hall. They employed the architects John Seeley and Paul Edward Paget and the fashionable Mayfair interior designer the Marchese Peter Malacrida to design the strikingly glamorous 1930s interiors of the new house. The dramatic entrance hall was created by the Swedish designer Rolf Engstromer...
Category
1930s Art Deco England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Watercolor
Thinking, Reflecting By Hein Koh
Located in London, GB
Thinking, Reflecting
By Hein Koh
Hein Koh is a Korean-American visual artist known for her playful yet provocative sculptures, installations, and multimedia works that often explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Noir - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep connection to the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
19th Century French bronze sculpture of a soldier
By Léopold Eugène Kampf
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Léopold Eugène Kampf
French, (1822-1893)
The Last Drop
Bronze, signed with foundry mark for Alfred Daubrée
Height: 16 inches
Width: 5 inches
Depth: 5.5 ...
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis
Located in London, GB
This remarkably fluid terracotta bozetto was made in preparation for Pietro Pacilli’s most important public commission, a large-scale marble statue of San Camillo de Lellis for the nave of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Expressively modelled, this terracotta sculpture is a rare and significant work made by a major Roman sculptor at a transformative moment of European sculpture. Pacilli began his working life on the great Baroque decorative projects initiated in the seventeenth century, but he found success as a restorer of ancient sculpture working to finish antiquities for a tourist market, becoming an important figure in the emergence of an archaeologically minded Neoclassicism. Pacilli trained Vincenzo Pacetti and provided important decorative work for the Museo Pio-Clementino, at the same time he is recorded restoring some of the most celebrated antiquities excavated and exported during the period.
Pacilli was born into a family of Roman craftsmen, his father Carlo was a wood carver, and Pacilli is recorded working with him on the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni Laternao as early as 1735. In 1738 his terracotta model of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife won the first prize in the second class of the sculpture concorso at the Accademia di San Luca, this is particularly notable as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi came third. He worked as a carver and stuccoist completing works for the churches of San Marco and SS. Trinita dei Domeniciani Spagnoli. Pacilli operated as a sculptor and restorer of antiquities from his studio at the top of the Spanish Steps, close to Santa Trinita dei Monti, where he is listed as a potential vendor to the Museo Pio-Clementino in 1770.
In 1763 Pacilli completed a silver figure of San Venanzio for the treasury of San Venanzio. He is recorded as Pacetti’s first master and it was evidently through Pacilli that he began to acquire his facility as a restorer of ancient sculpture. Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on several important pieces of classical sculpture, including in 1760 the group of a Satyr with a Flute for the natural brother of George III, General Wallmoden, Hanovarian minister at Vienna. In 1765, Dallaway and Michaelis record that Pacilli was responsible for the restorations, including the addition of a new head, to the Barberini Venus which he had acquired from Gavin Hamilton. The Venus was then sold to Thomas Jenkins, who in turn passed it on to William Weddell at Newby Hall. In 1767 Pacilli exported a series of ancient busts ‘al naturale’ including portraits of Antinous, Julius Ceaser and Marus Aurelius, also a statue of a Muse and a Venus. As early as 1756 Pacilli seems to have been operating as an antiquarian, helping to disperse the collection of the Villa Borrioni. Pacilli supplied sculpture to notable British collectors, including Charles Townley, who on his first trip to Italy purchased the Palazzo Giustiniani statue of Hecate from Pacilli. Pacilli was involved with the Museo Pio Clementino from its conception, supplying busts of Julius Ceaser and a Roman Woman as well as completing stucco putti surmounting the arms of Pope Bendedict XIV to signal the entrance to the new Museo Critiano.
In 1750 Il Diario Ordinario del Chracas announced that Pacilli had begun work on a sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis for St Peter’s. Camillo de Lellis founded his congregation, the Camillians, with their distinctive red felt crosses stitched on black habits in 1591. Having served as a soldier in the Venetian army, Camillo de Lellis became a novitiate of the Capuchin friars, he moved to Rome and established a religious community for the purpose of caring for the sick. In 1586 Pope Sixtus V formerly recognised the Camillians and assigned them to the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome. Camillo de Lellis died in 1614 and was entombed at Santa Maria Maddalena, he was canonised by Benedict XIV on June 26, 1746. It was an occasion that prompted the Camillians to make a number of significant artistic commissions, including two canvases by Pierre Subleyras showing episodes from San Camillo’s life which they presented to Benedict XIV. In 1750 Pacilli was commissioned to fill one of the large niches on the north wall of the nave with a sculpture of San Camillo.
The present terracotta bozetto presumably had two important functions, to enable Pacilli to work out his ideas for the finished sculpture and at the same time to show his design to the various commissioning bodies. In this case it would have been Cardinal Alessandro Albani and Monsignor Giovan Francesco Olivieri, the ‘economo’ or treasurer of the fabric of St Peter’s. Previously unrecorded, this terracotta relates to a smaller, less finished model which has recently been identified as being Pacilli’s first idea for his statue of San Camillo. Preserved in Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, the terracotta shows San Camillo with his left hand clutching his vestments to his breast; the pose and action more deliberate and contained than the finished sculpture. In producing the present terracotta Pacilli has expanded and energised the figure. San Camillo is shown with his left hand extended, his head turned to the right, apparently in an attempt to look east down the nave of St Peter’s. The model shows Pacilli experimenting with San Camillo’s costume; prominently on his breast is the red cross of his order, whilst a sense of animation is injected into the figure through the billowing cloak which is pulled across the saint’s projecting right leg. The power of the restrained, axial contrapposto of bent right leg and outstretched left arm, is diminished in the final sculpture where a baroque fussiness is introduced to the drapery. What Pacilli’s terracotta demonstrates, is that he conceived the figure of San Camillo very much in line with the immediate tradition of depicting single figures in St Peter’s; the rhetorical gesture of dynamic saint, arm outstretched, book in hand, head pointed upwards was perhaps borrowed from Camillo Rusconi’s 1733 sculpture of St. Ignatius...
Category
18th Century Baroque England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
ANCIENT RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) ROMAN EMPIRE 1ST CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
This bronze sculpture is an exquisitely detailed representation of the god Dionysos, whose cult was one of the most popular in ancient times. Here, the god is nude, with a mantle that gently lies on his right leg. He is holding a bunch of grapes with his left hand, and a rhyton (drinking horn) with the right. The god is youthful and joyfully gazes forwards, with a crown of ivy leaves set upon his long flowing hair.
These features clearly resemble those of the life-size Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos exhibited at the British Museum, acc. no. 1861,0725.2 .
This statuette was probably part of a larger composition and used as a decorative element applied to a piece of furniture. Its finely wrought details, as well as the attractive olive-green patina led to its inclusion in the collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum for thirty years.
PROVENANCE
English Private Collection (Sotheby’s, London 17-18 July 1985, Lot 204)
Royal Athena...
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Heartfelt
By Patrick O'Reilly
Located in Belfast, GB
This piece is entitled Heartfelt. It is a large scale outdoor sculpture. The bronze hand holds up a beautiful cracked heart. The crystalline art resin is purposely cracked using a ch...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gallifa Study X by Barry Flanagan
By Barry Flanagan
Located in London, GB
Gallifa Study X
By Barry Flanagan
1992
Bronze
20.6 x 11.1 x 8.9 cm
Edition of 8
Category
1990s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze