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A FINE MARBLE BUST OF CARACALIA
BY FRANCIS HARWOOD (FL 1748-1769), ENGLISH, DATED 1763
Truncated at the shoulders, gazing to his right and wearing a cuirass and toga secured at the right shoulder, signed on the front 'CARACALIA' and on the reverse, 'F. Harwood Fecit 1763'-22½in. (50cm.) high, on a black and grey-veined marble socle, with mahogany pedestals
BY FRANCIS HARWOOD (FL 1748-1769), ENGLISH, DATED 1763
Truncated at the shoulders, gazing to his right and wearing a cuirass and toga secured at the right shoulder, signed on the front 'CARACALIA' and on the reverse, 'F. Harwood Fecit 1763'-22½in. (50cm.) high, on a black and grey-veined marble socle, with mahogany pedestals
Provenance
Sold at Christie's East, 18 September 1984, lot 78
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1951 J. Fleming-H. Honour, Francis Harwood an english sculptor in XVIII Century in Florence, Festschrift Ulrich Middeldorf, 1968, Berlin, p. 510-516
H. Belsey, A newly discovered work by Francesco Harwood, Burlington Magazine, January 1980, p. 65-66
K. Fittschen & P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, I, no. 61
P.H. McKay, Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton, A Patron of Promise, 1989
Francis Harwood (d. 1783) was a part of the Anglo-Florentine community in Florence during the second half of the 18th century. He was a prolific sculptor who specialized in busts and figures after the antique working primilarly for the titled English on tour. First recorded in Florence in 1753, by 1758 he was working on the Triumphal Arch outside the Porta San Gallo. Harwood appears to have collaborated with the Florentine sculptor Piamontini and eventually took over his studio in 1762. His wide circle of patrons included Catherine the Great and Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton.
Other examples of the Caracalla and the Julius Caesar are in English private collections.
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1951 J. Fleming-H. Honour, Francis Harwood an english sculptor in XVIII Century in Florence, Festschrift Ulrich Middeldorf, 1968, Berlin, p. 510-516
H. Belsey, A newly discovered work by Francesco Harwood, Burlington Magazine, January 1980, p. 65-66
K. Fittschen & P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, I, no. 61
P.H. McKay, Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton, A Patron of Promise, 1989
Francis Harwood (d. 1783) was a part of the Anglo-Florentine community in Florence during the second half of the 18th century. He was a prolific sculptor who specialized in busts and figures after the antique working primilarly for the titled English on tour. First recorded in Florence in 1753, by 1758 he was working on the Triumphal Arch outside the Porta San Gallo. Harwood appears to have collaborated with the Florentine sculptor Piamontini and eventually took over his studio in 1762. His wide circle of patrons included Catherine the Great and Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton.
Other examples of the Caracalla and the Julius Caesar are in English private collections.