Furniture, Works of Art, Carpets & Clocks - including the Homm Collection of Carpets Part One - 15th January 2025

Lot 643

A VICTORIAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2268

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Description

A VICTORIAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

BY WILLIAM CALDER MARSHALL (1813 - 1894), DATED '1852'

sporting sideburns and wearing a classical toga on a turned socle, signed and dated 'W.C. MARSHALL 1852'

81cm high

Provenance

Purchased from Anthony Outred.

A Private Collection.

Catalogue Note

William Calder Marshall (1813-1894) was born in Edinburgh and by 1834 has moved to London where he studied under Edward Hodges Baily and Sir Francis Chantrey. As was normal, he then spent a few years honing his skills in Rome before returning to London where, in 1844 he was elected to the Royal Academy. He became a full member of the Academy in 1852 after he had a marble sculpture of Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn, exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851 - a photograph of which is held by the Royal Collections Trust, RCIN 28001155.

Throughout his life-time, he designed and produced a variety of sculptures ‘after the antique’, including Sabrina, many of which were adapted by Copeland Porcelain for production in parian, together with a number of public works including for St Paul’s Cathedral and the new Houses of Parliament.