拍品專文
The present bronze is after the original model by the Turin born sculptor Baron Carlo Marocheti (b.1805-d.1867), which stands in George Square, Glasgow. The bronze was erected between 1863-6.
The son of a servant of the Napoleonic republican government he settled and studied in Paris. After the 1848 revolution Marochetti moved to London where he soon became popular as sculptor for the Royal Family and prominent members of Society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1851-1867 and was elected as a Royal Acadamician in 1866.
(Aileen Dawson 'Portrait Sculpture, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, c.1675-1975' , British Museum Press, 1999).
The son of a servant of the Napoleonic republican government he settled and studied in Paris. After the 1848 revolution Marochetti moved to London where he soon became popular as sculptor for the Royal Family and prominent members of Society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1851-1867 and was elected as a Royal Acadamician in 1866.
(Aileen Dawson 'Portrait Sculpture, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, c.1675-1975' , British Museum Press, 1999).