"in turn by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland. John Russell, the 6th Duke of Bedford, commissioned a version of the now famous work. He had visited Canova's studio in Rome in 1814 and had been immensely impressed by a carving of the Graces which Canova produced for the Empress Josephine. When the Empress died in May of the same year he offered to purchase the completed piece, but was unsuccessful as Josephine’s son Eugène claimed it (his son Maximilian brought it to St. Petersburg, where it can now be found in the Hermitage Museum)."
"co-director of Lennox's Richmond House gallery, and established a workshop. He built up a considerable practice, making busts and monuments, including the memorial to James Wolfe in Westminster Abbey. He made at least two marble busts of Oliver Cromwell, which he showed at the Society of Artists, in 1761 and 1761, basing the likeness on a cast of Cromwell's face. One marble version, and the terracotta model for it, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1761, he was first commissioned to produce a statue of King George III. Similar commissions followed, including one in 1766"
"round relief of ""St. John the Evangelist"" (probably) by Giovanni di Stefano and, below the altar, a polychrome ""Pietà"" by the sculptor Alberto di Betto da Assisi in 1421. Above this marble monument is a fresco of the ""Papal Coronation of Pius III"" by Pinturicchio in 1504. In the middle of the library is the famous statue ""Three Graces"", a Roman copy of a Greek original. Pinturicchio painted this cycle of frescoes around the library between 1502 and 1507, representing Raphael and himself in several of them. This masterpiece is full of striking detail and vivacious colours. Each scene is"
"of the now famous work. He had previously visited Canova in his studio in Rome in 1814 and had been immensely impressed by a carving of the Graces the sculptor had made for the Empress Josephine. When the Empress died in May of the same year he immediately offered to purchase the completed piece, but was unsuccessful as Josephine’s son Eugène claimed it (his son Maximilian brought it to St. Petersburg, where it can now be found in the Hermitage Museum). Undeterred, the Duke commissioned another version for himself. The sculpting process began in 1814 and was completed in 1817."
"marble of ""Timocles Before Alexander"", for which he was awarded fifty guineas by the Society of Arts, and busts of Laurence Sterne and David Garrick, who were visiting the city. On his return to London in 1770 he set up as a maker of busts and monuments at 9, Mortimer Street, where he built up a large practice. Although he preferred working on mythological subjects, it was through his portrait busts that he became famous and one of the most fashionable portrait sculptors in Britain. He enjoyed the patronage of king George III and went on to sculpt a number"
"he provided six of the twelve festive, flexing, grimacing atlantes for which he is most remembered. For the Zwinger he also provided the sculptures for the ""Nymphenbad"" fountain. He died in Dresden. His most famous independent, free-standing sculpture is an over-lifesize marble ""Apotheosis of Prince Eugene"" (1718–21; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna), where the main figure, depicted with the attributes of Hercules, and secondary figures of Fame and a fallen Turk are linked in a tour-de-force of complicated Berninian diagonals that did not satisfy Prince Eugene of Savoy's classicizing taste. His two polychromed wood figures of St Augustine and St Ambrose,"
"become regarded by many as a benchmark of beauty. The Three Graces (sculpture) Antonio Canova’s statue The Three Graces is a Neoclassical sculpture, in marble, of the mythological three charites, daughters of Zeus – identified on some engravings of the statue as, from left to right, Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia – who were said to represent youth/beauty (Thalia), mirth (Euphrosyne), and elegance (Aglaea). The Graces presided over banquets and gatherings, to delight the guests of the gods. As such they have served as subjects for historical artists including Sandro Botticelli and Bertel Thorvaldsen. A version of the sculpture is in"
"was architectural sculpture. Albert Hodge Albert Hemstock Hodge (17 July 1875 – 31 December 1917 or 27 January 1918) was a Scottish born (Port Ellen, on the island of Islay) British sculptor. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art under William Kellock Brown. Initially he worked as an architect with William Leiper, but his ability as a modeller led him to continue his career as a sculptor. His works include a statue (in Glasgow) of Queen Victoria and a statue (in Stirling) of Robert Burns. In 1901 he moved to London, where he died in 1917 or 1918. Much"
"A second full-size bronze was also cast in 1964. It was acquired by the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, where it is displayed on a brick plinth outside the gallery. A third cast, now owned by Tate, was the artist's copy. It was displayed at British Pavilion at the Montreal Expo in 1967, and has been on public display on the Thames Embankment, at Riverside Walk Gardens in Millbank, near the Tate Gallery, since returning to the UK in 1968, where it was mounted on a hexagonal base, sprayed by six fountains. The sculpture was presented to the Tate Gallery by"
"and occupied himself with sculpture. He had previously, in 1862, designed and executed a recumbent statue in marble of Charles James Blomfield, bishop of London, for St. Paul's Cathedral, and in 1882 he executed the marble bust of Dr. Pusey, now in Pusey House, Oxford, and presented a bust of John Keble to Keble College. Among his later works in oil were portraits of Harvey Goodwin, bishop of Carlisle, Edward King, bishop of Lincoln, and Archibald Campbell Tait, archbishop of Canterbury. In 1887, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee, he painted a portrait of the third Marquis of Salisbury"
"(1898) are held in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. He also created five of the multiple statues on the exterior of the Portrait Gallery: James Hutton; John Napier; King James VI; James Campbell and Adam Duncan. He created the Saracen Fountain in cast iron for the Kelvingrove International Exhibition of 1901. It was later moved to Alexandra Park, Glasgow. This included a repeat of three figures from an earlier monument to John Platt (MP) in Oldham (1878). Copies were made for Town Hall Park in Warrington (destroyed 1942) and the Sammy Marks Zoological Gardens in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1868,"
"third version was dedicated in Marquette Park on Mackinac Island, Michigan. A plaster version of the statue is located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Jacques Marquette (Trentanove) Jacques Marquette is a statue by Gaetano Trentanove of Jacques Marquette, the most well known version being the 1896 marble one installed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington D.C.. The statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection is one of two donated by the state of Wisconsin. The work was accepted into the senate in 1896. Another version of the statue is the 1897 bronze casting"
"of ""Science & Learning"" and ""Labour"" on the corners. He became known for his portrait sculptures executed in marble and bronze. His best known and most iconic work is the 1869 bronze figure of William Wallace on the Wallace Monument near Stirling. He became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He lived in a townhouse at 2 Castle Terrace facing onto St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street. He is buried with his younger brother, William Grant Stevenson, also a sculptor, in the south-west section of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh. The monument is sculpted by Henry"
"which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums is said to be ""after Timotheus"". The theme must have been popular, judging by the more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive. The most famous version has been that in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, purchased by Pope Clement XIV from the heirs of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. A highly restored version is in the Museo del Prado, and an incomplete one is in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Timotheus (sculptor) Timotheus (; born in Epidaurus; died in Epidaurus, c. 340 BC) was a Greek sculptor of"
"among the marble versions. The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds the original 1843 pointed-plaster mold, along with numerous smaller casts from Powers' studio. Powers' studio produced five full-scale marble versions of the ""Greek Slave."" Nearly identical, each one was made for sale to a different private collector. An Englishman purchased the first of the large marble versions (now at Raby Castle), and it was exhibited publicly in London in 1845 at Graves' Pall Mall. In 1851, it was featured by the U.S. at The Great Exhibition in London, and four years later was shown in Paris. The second was purchased"
"The Three Graces (Whitney) The Three Graces, also known as Carytid Fountain Group, Friendship Fountain, The Three Bares, and Three Bares Fountain, is an outdoor fountain and sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, installed in 1931 at Montreal's McGill University, in Quebec, Canada. Whitney’s caryatid figure dated back to 1913 when she won an award for it at the Paris Salon and from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. It had been modeled for the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D.C. The original hotel was demolished in 1912 to make room for a larger hotel, that was to include Whitney's"
"limestone block upon which is mortared the sculpture itself. The grounds of Oldfields were landscaped by Percival Gallagher of the Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s. The property and all sculptures on it were donated to the IMA by the family of former Oldfields owner Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., in 1967. In 2001 the outdoor sculptures were assessed, and eighteen selected pieces were accessioned into the IMA's Lilly House collection. ""The Three Graces"" was assigned Accession Number LH2001.227. IMA Director of Historic Resources and Assistant Curator of the American Decorative Arts collection Bradley Brooks has researched the sculpture's origins to discover"
"of his mid- to late-career plastic cube sculptures and his ""Downtown Nudes Series"" - a collection of oils on canvas - at the opening exhibition of Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and in 1973 he produced the ""Electric Figure Series"", another collection of oils on canvas. Among his late-career commissions were the ""Three Graces"", a fountain and bronze sculpture for the Ontario government buildings, ""Female Landscape"", a fountain and bronze sculpture at Montreal's Place Ville Marie, ""Optical Galaxy Sculpture"", a fountain and sculpture in Belconnen, Australia, and a fountain and precast concrete sculpture for a Martin Luther King"
"its worth. Schadow made several other versions of the work, the first probably between 1814 and 1816. The King of Prussia, Prince Esterhazy and the Duke of Devonshire all expressed a wish to include this statue in their collections. One version completed in 1820 is on display in the Hermitage, which acquired it from the Znamenka Palace, near St. Petersburg, in 1930. Embracing the Roman Catholic faith, he produced statues of John the Baptist and of the ""Virgin and Child"". In England he became known by bas-reliefs executed for the Duke of Devonshire and for the Marquess of Lansdowne. His"
"War II, he worked on many grand sculptures, including ""Our Lady of the Isles"", 1958, a massive granite statue of the mother and child sited at Rueval on South Uist. Between 1950 and 1955 he also sculpted the artwork adorning the facade of the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, for which he produced a series of tall, allegorical figures, depicting history, law, medicine, music, poetry, science and theology. The architect of the library was Reginald Fairlie, who had been apprentice to Lorimer's father Robert. Lorimer carved the figures directly into the stone rather than copying from clay models, a"
"marble statue of Albert standing on a plinth and facing west, designed by Matthew Noble (1862–1867). The figure is placed within a large Medieval-style ciborium which was designed by the architect Thomas Worthington. Noble was commissioned by the then mayor, Thomas Goadsby, to sculpt the Prince's likeness, and the designs were personally approved by Queen Victoria. Worthington himself had, at the age of 18, been presented with the Royal Society of Arts' Isis Gold Medal by Prince Albert for a design for a Gothic-style chancel. His Medieval-style design for the Albert Memorial was inspired by the Church of Santa Maria"
"Pilkington Jackson Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson ARSA, FRBS, FRSA (11 October 1887 – 20 September 1973) was a British sculptor prominent in Scotland in the 20th century. Through his career he worked closely with the architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He is most noteworthy for his creation of one of Scotland’s iconic landmarks, which appears in much promotional material about Scotland: the statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. Charles d'Orville was born at Garlenick near Grampound, Cornwall the son of Ethel Katie D'Orville. She married Louis Pilkington Jackson soon after, who may be presumed to be Charles' father, leading him"
"Oxford. A marble replica was carved by Frederick Pomeroy for Carl Jacobsen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Leighton counselled against the reproduction, as the marble is less able to hold its own weight, but eventually acquiesced and adapted the composition, adding supports for the legs. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891 before being transported to Denmark. The marble sculpture was de-accessioned by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1974. After passing through several private collections, it was sold at Christie's in 2003 for £446,650. Smaller reproductions of the bronze were cast in two sizes by Ernest Brown and"
"Indies. He created Jamaica's coronation gift for H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, a carved wooden tray. He taught at the Jamaica School of Arts and Crafts (1955–61). He left for England to sculpt the statue ""Athlete"" based on Jamaica's first Olympic gold medallist, Arthur Wint. It stands at the National Stadium and was unveiled by Princess Margaret in 1962 for the Central American and Caribbean Games. He was employed as the chief of architectural embellishments for builder A.D. Scott Ltd. He completed busts of the Jamaican National Heroes prime minister Alexander Bustamante, pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey and premier Norman Manley, as well"
"dissenting theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley, now in Chamberlain Square, a statue of Sir Josiah Mason, (destroyed, but a 1952 bronze cast of the bust, by William Bloye, is in the suburb of Erdington), a statue of preacher and reformer George Dawson (since destroyed), a statue of John Skirrow Wright (also destroyed; a 1956 bronze cast of the bust by Bloye is in Birmingham Council House), and the decoration on the pediment of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, a work known as the ""Allegory of Fame Rewarding the Arts"". A plaster cast of his bust of Tennyson (1893)"
"Henry II's equestrian statue; but Michelangelo passed the commission on to Daniele da Volterra, and only the horse was ever made. On commission from Catherine, Germain Pilon carved the marble sculpture that contains Henry II's heart. The Florentine Domenico del Barbiere, who had worked at Fontainebleau, carved the base. Pilon's fluid style echoes Primaticcio's stucco work at Fontainebleau. The piece may also have been influenced by Pierre Bontemps's monument for the heart of Francis I. Pilon set the bronze urn on the heads of the Three Graces, who are poised back to back, as if to dance. He may have"
"and ""Etruria"". In 1938 he exhibited ""Lady Jane"" and ""J.W.Dulanty"". His highly stylized ""Lady Jane"" was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1936) and toured America in 1944. A version is now in Auckland City Art Gallery. His sandstone ""Crouching Figure"" (c 1936), a nude female figure with her head wrapped, is now in the Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru. He was commissioned in 1939 to carve the rood cross for All Souls', Leeds, the “Hook Memorial” Church. The carving of “Christ Triumphant on the Cross"" was carved in lime wood and was the largest wooden figure made in England at"
"replica of the piece. The Greek Slave The Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by American sculptor Hiram Powers. It was one of the best-known and critically acclaimed American artworks of the nineteenth century, and is among the most popular American sculptures ever. It was the first publicly exhibited, life-size, American sculpture depicting a fully nude female figure. Powers originally modeled the work in clay, in Florence, Italy, completing it on March 12, 1843. The first marble version of the sculpture was completed by Powers' studio in 1844 and is now in Raby Castle, England. Five more full-sized versions of"
"engravings of twenty-five pavements, thirty-nine subjects from painted glass, five brasses and incised slabs, four fonts and eight miscellaneous subjects. He also created at least twenty-nine unpublished engravings, mostly of objects of antiquity. Many of the published plates were accompanied by printed broadsides. He became acquainted with Sir Walter Scott and other celebrities, and was presented on at least one occasion to the royal family at Windsor. Some of his work can be seen in North Lincolnshire Museum in Scunthorpe and Baysgarth House Museum in Barton-on-Humber. Sir Joseph Banks said of him: ""Others have shown us what they thought these"
"studied at the Edinburgh School of Applied Art 1894-5, when already an established sculptor. He contributed three stone figures to the Scott Monument on Princes Street: Baron Bradwardine, The Glee Maiden and Flora MacIvor. His sculpture yard stood at 3 Torphicen Place in Edinburgh's West End, and he lived with his family in a large Victorian flat at 19 Manor Place, slightly to the north of his studio. He died in Edinburgh and is buried in Grange Cemetery, in the northern half of its SE section, alongside his wife Margaret Ballantine (1839-1875). His daughter Henrietta (1871-1933) married Andrew Paterson Melville"
"sculptor of his time. Whilst his reputation stemmed from his marble busts of prominent Scots and the Royal Family, his most well-known commission was the bronze statue of Robert Burns in George Square, Glasgow, created in 1874-77, which was later enhanced with three bronze panels by his brother James in 1885-7. Whereas much of his work on public buildings has been lost during demolition, significant works remain to be seen in the cemeteries of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1879 he moved to America for health reasons, working in New York and Philadelphia, but achieving only limited success. His body was"
"and St. Andrew"", in St. Andrew's Church, Wells Street; ""the entombment"" in the Digby mortuary chapel, Sherborne; and ""Expulsion from Eden"" at St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth in Shropshire. He also carved the four Christian and four moral virtues including ""Fortitude"" on the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. He was the youngest sculptor employed and he was personally chosen by Scott. After Redfern's death it was said that his original statues were of a higher quality than their eventual metal realizations which were created by Francis Skidmore of Coventry. He also created the statue of the Duke of Devonshire in front"
"unknown, but there are two known plaster copies, one at the Henry Moore Foundation and one on long term loan to the Tate Gallery. Moore also cast a bronze edition of four (plus one artist's copy) between 1948 and 1949; an additional artist's cast was made in 1985. Examples of these sculptures are held in the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The work in Battersea Park was carved between August 1947 and May 1948 from Darley Dale sandstone, one of the last statues that Moore made from English stone. It was"