CAST FROM THE MODEL BY ALFRED DRURY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Drury's study of a young child, entitled The Age of Innocence, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897 and, due to the wide appreciation that it achieved, was soon after edited in bronze. The model for the work was Gracie Doncaster, the younger daughter of Drury's good friends and sister of Clarrie Doncaster, on whose face were modelled the celebrated torch-bearing figures of Morning and Evening, erected in City Square, Leeds, in 1898.