Lot 502
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An English sculpted marble full length figure of Queen Victoria
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An English sculpted marble full length figure of Queen Victoria

FRANCIS JOHN WILLIAMSON, ESHER, DATED 1887

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An English sculpted marble full length figure of Queen Victoria
Francis John Williamson, Esher, Dated 1887
Inscribed F. J. WILLIAMSON, SC./ESHER. 1887, mounted on a marmo giallo base, losses
29in. (73.7cm.) high, 13in. (33cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

A one-time pupil of John Bell, apprentice and then studio assistant to John Foley for over twenty years, Francis John Williamson (d. 1920) was the private sculptor to Queen Victoria during the 1880s and 1890s. For the Royal Family he executed large numbers of portrait busts in marble - Prince Alamaya of Abyssinia (signed and dated 1880); Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, at Osborne House; Arthur, Duke of Connaught (signed and dated 1885), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (signed and dated 1893) at Windsor.
A portrait of an infant, possibly one of the Royal children (signed and dated 1884) was sold at Christies, New York, 10th October 2000, lot 370.

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