拍品 89
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Sir Alfred Gilbert, M.V.O., R.A. (1854-1934)
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Sir Alfred Gilbert, M.V.O., R.A. (1854-1934)

Bust of George Frederic Watts

细节
Sir Alfred Gilbert, M.V.O., R.A. (1854-1934)
Bust of George Frederic Watts
signed and dated 'A Gilbert ARA Sc 1890'
bronze, dark-brown patina; on wooden plinth
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high, the bronze
来源
with The Maas Gallery, London, 1994.
出版
R. Dorment, Exhibition catalogue, Alfred Gilbert, Sculptor and Goldsmith, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1986, pp. 119-20, cat. no. 22 (a larger cast).
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拍品专文

In 1888, Mary, the wife of George Frederic Watts, wrote to Gilbert from France asking him to undertake a portrait of her husband. A previous attempt by Hamo Thornycroft to persuade Watts to sit for Gilbert had failed in 1885. This time the two artists consented, and Gilbert's resulting portrait, which he himself claimed 'could not be better', shows Watts wearing his customary skull cap. In its more formal and classical approach, Gilbert's highly competent effort betrays his early years spent in the studio of master portraitist Joseph Edgar Boehm. The work contrasts with his later portraits, which demonstrate a far greater sense of immediacy.