Sir Alfred Gilbert MVO RA (1854-1934) Charity patinated bronze on ebonised wood base unsigned...

Sir Alfred Gilbert MVO RA (1854-1934)

Charity

patinated bronze on ebonised wood base

unsigned

35cm. high (bronze), 47.5cm. high (total height)

Provenance

Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read, thence by descent.

Literature

Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art The Handley-Read Collection Royal Academy of Arts, 1972 page 109 catalogue number F.29 for another, slightly taller version listed.

Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert Yale, page 27 figure 9 for the plaster version (Tate Gallery).

Alfred Gilbert Royal Academy of Arts, 1986, catalogue number 91 for a comparable example illustrated and also catalogue number 90 for an example cast by Alessandro Parlanti in August 1899 with experimental two colour patination technique.