A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF WILLIAM, 12TH DUKE OF HAMILTON AND MARBLE PEDESTAL, by Jean-Pierre Dantan, dit Dantan Jeune, looking forward, on a square-tapering socle, signed Dantan Fe 1863 and carved to the front with the Hamilton Arms and motto,circa 1863 on a verde antico marble pedestal with circular fluted column and octagonal foot

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A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF WILLIAM, 12TH DUKE OF HAMILTON AND MARBLE PEDESTAL, by Jean-Pierre Dantan, dit Dantan Jeune, looking forward, on a square-tapering socle, signed Dantan Fe 1863 and carved to the front with the Hamilton Arms and motto,circa 1863 on a verde antico marble pedestal with circular fluted column and octagonal foot
the bust: 22in. (56cm.) high
the pedestal: 42in. (106.8cm.) high (2)

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'Ecole Française au Dix-neuvième Siècle, Vol II, Paris, 1916, pp. 24-46.

Lot Essay

William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton succeeded his father at the age of eighteen, becoming the 12th Duke of Hamilton and the 9th Duke of Brandon on 15 July 1863, the same year that Dantan exhibited the present bust at the Paris Salon (no. 2320). At the same Salon, Dantan also exhibited a bust of Mary Hamilton, the dowager Duchess.

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