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AN ENGLISH STATUARY MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN
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AN ENGLISH STATUARY MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

BY GAMON ADAMS, 19TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH STATUARY MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN
BY GAMON ADAMS, 19TH CENTURY
Modelled with side whiskers and draped shoulders, the reverse signed G.G. ADAMS. Sc LONDON, on a waisted socle and later marble pedestal
The bust - 29 in. (73.5 cm.), the pedestal - 43¾ in. (111 cm.) high
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It has been suggested that the sitter is John Augustus Beaumont, successor to his father John Thomas Barber Beaumont as managing director of the County Fire Office.

Lot Essay

George Gamon Adams b. 1821, d. 1898
Attended the Royal Academy Schools in 1840 on the recomendation of William Wyon, chief engraver to the Royal Mint, studying there both as a sculptor and medallist. Amongst his numerous commissions Adams was the artist chosen to take the death-mask of the Duke of Wellington in 1852. From this mask he produced a bust of the Duke which was described by the second Duke as to be ''...considered by myself and those gentlemen he knew him best, as well as by his servants, as the best by far that has appeared, and we are obliged to you for thus making a likeness which hereafter will be considered authentic.''

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