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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

BY LAWRENCE MACDONALD, 1843

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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN By Lawrence MacDonald, 1843 Signed and dated across the reverse of the shoulders 'L. MACDONALD. FECIT.ROMA.1843', his head turned slightly to dexter; the shoulders draped al antica, on a circular marble socle, minor chips 25 in. (63.5 cm.) high; 30 in. (76.2 cm.) high, overall

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The Rome-based Scottish portrait sculptor Lawrence MacDonald (d. 1878) was a founder member of the British Academy of Arts, when it was established shortly after his arrival in Rome in 1822. By the mid-19th Century the rooms of his studio were so filled with plaster busts of noble and illustrious persons that it was reported to represent 'the peerage done into marble'.

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