WORKSHOP OF GEORGE GAMMON ADAMS (1821-1898), CIRCA 1852

细节

A VICTORIAN CREAM-PAINTED PLASTER HERM BUST OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
WORKSHOP OF GEORGE GAMMON ADAMS (1821-1898), CIRCA 1852
Depicted facing frontally and with bare shoulders; the reverse signed and dated "G.G. ADAMS. Sc. 1852"
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high.

来源

J. Cambell-Methuen, Corsham Court, Wiltshire; sold
Syon House, Middlesex, Sotheby's house sale, 14-16 May 1997, lot 984 M.

注意事项

This lot is offered without reserve. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The marble bust, for which this is the plaster, still exists at Corsham Court, Wiltshire.

GEORGE GAMMON ADAMS
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.''