AN ENGLISH WHITE MARBLE FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF NIGHT

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AN ENGLISH WHITE MARBLE FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF NIGHT
By John Thomas, third quarter 19th Century

The veiled woman reclining against a tree-stump, an owl at its foot, on a rectangular base signed JOHN THOMAS, minor chip
29in. (73.7cm.) wide; 18in. (45.7cm.) high; 11 7/8in. (30.2cm.) deep

來源

Sold Anonymously in these rooms 15 February 1990, lot 173.

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
B. Read, Victorian Sculpture, Yale University, 1982, pp. 143-145, figs. 176-7.

拍品專文

John Thomas (d. 1862), an extremely prolific and eclectic sculptor, began his working life under the auspices of Sir Charles Barry. Exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1842-1861, his oeuvre includes many public monuments and commissions for private houses. Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the great Victorian industrialist and patron of the arts, employed Thomas extensively as architect and sculptor at his country house, Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk. In 1851, as part of the scheme, Thomas executed two reclining figures - one of 'Night', the other of 'Day' - for the garden terrace. The present model is a smaller version of the near-lifesize figure of 'Night' and was most probably the marble statuette entitled 'Night' which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853, no. 1308.