Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 2nd October 2019
Lot 389
After Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841). A patinated plaster portrait bust of Mary Somerville
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
After Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841). A patinated plaster portrait bust of Mary Somerville, signed in the cast 'SIR F. CHANTRY SC: 1840', 76.5cm high, 54cm wide.
Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was a British polymath and academic writer, famous for her English translation of Laplace's Mécanique céleste, under the title, The Mechanism of the Heavens.