A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A GIRL

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A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A GIRL
ENGLISH, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

On a circular marble socle.
Numerous minor chips.
15in. (38.1cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
B. Read, Victorian Sculpture, New Haven and London, 1982, fig. 262 M. Greenwood, Victorian Ideal Sculpture, 1830-1860: Merseyside Sculptors and Collectors, Patronage and Practice, Sculpture on Merseyside, P. Curtis ed., Liverpool, 1989, p. 53, fig. 9

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The present marble bust, with its serene and idealised features, recalls the work of English sculptors working in the second quarter of the 19th century such as John Gibson. Gibson, who worked for many years in Rome and had trained with Canova and Thorwaldsen, produced several works to which this marble might be compared, such as, his Love Tormenting the Soul, in the Walker Art Gallery (Greenwood, loc.cit.) or his Narcissus in the Royal Academy (Read, loc.cit.).