Lot 86
86
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FOUR ENGLISH CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS AND EMPERORS
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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FOUR ENGLISH CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS AND EMPERORS

LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY ISAAC GOSSET (1713-1799)

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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FOUR ENGLISH CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS AND EMPERORS
LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY ISAAC GOSSET (1713-1799)
In profile, each inscribed with a name to the side, mounted in a yellow painted background with moulded rim around the relief, each in a moulded rectangular frame, one with paper lining to the reverse inscribed in ink By Isaac Gosset
the wax relief 4.4 cm x 4 cm.; the frame 29 cm. high x 31 cm. wide (24)
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Lot Essay

Issac Gosset (1713-1799) was the sixth son of Jean Gosset, a Huguenot from Normandy who had settled in Jersey. He trained in London as a frame-carver and wax-modeller with his uncle Matthew Gosset (1683-1744) of Poland Street, Soho. Gosset was one of the most established 18th century modellers in wax and exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1760 to 1778.

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