A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED PLASTER BUSTS OF WILLIAM V OF HOLLAND AND WILHELMINA OF PRUSSIA
A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED PLASTER BUSTS OF WILLIAM V OF HOLLAND AND WILHELMINA OF PRUSSIA

WORKSHOP OF MARIE-ANNE COLLOT (1748-1821), LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED PLASTER BUSTS OF WILLIAM V OF HOLLAND AND WILHELMINA OF PRUSSIA
WORKSHOP OF MARIE-ANNE COLLOT (1748-1821), LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with an integrally cast circular socle; inscribed 'par M A Falconet née Collot 1782' to the reverse of the shoulders of William V
31 and 32½ in. (79.2 and 82.5 cm.) high, overall (2)
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in his studio at 31 Tite Street, London, by 1902.
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''Who do the busts represent?' she fired at him.
'They are King George III and Queen Charlotte by Falconer,' he
answered.
'They are not!' said the Queen immediately.
Grandfather was not used to being contradicted about his own collection in his own house, but he somehow stifled his wish to splutter out a
protest and merely bowed.
'They are the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester', said the Queen.
My grandfather bowed again. Perhaps my grandfather's less than
convincing assent was noticed; the Queen, despite her busy life
continued to correspond with him on the identity of the two busts for
the next twenty years!'

S. Houfe, Sir Albert Richardson: The Professor, Luton, 1980, p.
134.
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890's: Complete Paintings Volume II, 2002, no. 26, figs. 16 and 17.
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits: Volume III, 2003, no. 419.

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Marie-Anne Collot was a French portrait sculptor who was first trained by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in Paris. Sometime before 1766 she became the pupil of Etienne-Maurice Falconet who took her to St Petersburg, where he was working on The Bronze Horseman, the colossal equestrian statue of Peter the Great that become one of the symbols of the city. She was soon making lively and characterful busts of the Empress Catherine and her social circle.
In 1777 Collot married her master's son, Pierre-Etienne Falconet and then returned to Paris with him. However she later fled from her husband to The Hague to live with her father-in-law, and this is where she carved the marble busts of William V and his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia which are now in the Mauritshuis in that city.
William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806) was the last Stadholder of the Dutch Republic. His wife, Wilhelmina of Prussia, the Princess of Orange, was heavily involved in the politics of his reign and often used foreign supporters to influence Dutch policy. In 1795, they were forced to flee to England when the Dutch patriots returned and founded the Batavian Republic.
The busts sat in the London studio of John Singer Sargent who, like Sir Albert Richardson after him, was a Royal Academician. Sargent used the bust of William V as a prop in his 1902 portrait of Mrs. Charles Alexander and the same bust can be seen when his studio was later photographed in 1922 (Ormond, vol. II, loc. cit.).

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