Lot 37
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A SCOTTISH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF JOHN GLADSTONE
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A SCOTTISH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF JOHN GLADSTONE

BY LAWRENCE MACDONALD, DATED 1831

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A SCOTTISH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF JOHN GLADSTONE
BY LAWRENCE MACDONALD, DATED 1831
Depicted facing frontally, wearing a classical robe, the reverse signed and dated 'L. MACDONALD/Sculpt./1831'
28 in. (71 cm.) high
Literature
Possibly 1851 Inventory, Saloon, 'Three Marble Busts & Scagliola stands - £30.0.0'
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Lot Essay

Lawrence Macdonald (1799-1878) was born in Gask in Perthshire and was apprenticed to a local mason, Thomas Gibson, before gaining his first influential patron, the architect James Gillespie Graham. It was on his introduction that, following admission to the Trustee's Academy in Edinburgh, Macdonald travelled to Rome where he became one of the founding members of the British Academy of Arts in the city.

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