BY GEORGE GARRARD (1760-1826), 1796

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A GEORGE III PATINATED PLASTER BUST OF SAMUEL WHITBREAD III AS A CHILD
BY GEORGE GARRARD (1760-1826), 1796
The bust above a marble cartouche inscribed "SAMUEL WHITBREAD Efqr AUGUST. 1796" and on a cylindrical marble pedestal signed and dated to the reverse "G. GARRARD. Fecit. 1796." and square marble plinth.
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high, 15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Humphrey Whitbread (d.2000), Cardington, Bedfordshire; sold
Christie's, London, 5 April 2001, lot 397.

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Lot Essay

George Garrard (1760-1826) was patronised by Samuel Whitbread II (d. 1815) of Southill. He started life as a painter, specialising in animals, and was a pupil of Sawrey Gilpin. Garrard and Gilpin both worked at Southill, but gradually Garrard gave up painting for sculpture. Many of his pieces, including busts, still remain at Southill (Southill, A Regency House, London, 1951, figs. 11, 73-73, 85-87).

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