BY CONSTANTIN DAUSCH, ROME, DATED 1892

Constantin Dausch began his career as a stonemason at the town hall in Munich. He became a pupil at the Munich Academy in 1869 and shortly afterwards moved to Rome, where he was to spend the rest of his career, dying in the same city in 1908. His first major success was with a group of Samson and Delilah at the International Exhibition in Vienna in 1873, and his work became particularly popular with British and German collectors.