Lot 4
4
AN ENGLISH SILVERED BRONZE RELIEF OF A MAIDEN, ENTITLED 'MY QUEEN', cast from a model by Alfred Drury, the girl shown in profile to the right, her hair bound delicately in a band, wearing a pleated gown with flowing sleeves, inscribed MY QUEEN, "Pure in her Spirit that maiden I love", signed and dated A.DRURY 91, within archtiectural wood frame, circa 1890s

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AN ENGLISH SILVERED BRONZE RELIEF OF A MAIDEN, ENTITLED 'MY QUEEN', cast from a model by Alfred Drury, the girl shown in profile to the right, her hair bound delicately in a band, wearing a pleated gown with flowing sleeves, inscribed MY QUEEN, "Pure in her Spirit that maiden I love", signed and dated A.DRURY 91, within archtiectural wood frame, circa 1890s
20¼ x 14½in. (51.5 x 37cm.) including frame
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. Lys Baldry, A Notable Sculptor: Alfred Drury, ARA, in The Studio, 1906, vol. 37, p. 13

Lot Essay

The present fine relief relates to Drury's idealised poetic female heads, the most celebrated being Griselda of 1896. This relief shows a similar sitter and similar neo-Renaissance dress and braided hair. He exhibited the relief of My Queen at the New Gallery in 1896, and the present version is a delicate lost-wax cast of this rare model enriched by the silvered patina.

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