Bust of Sir Walter Scott

JOHN FRANCIS MOORE (D. 1809) A STATUARY MARBLE BUST OF THE RT. HON. CHARLES WOLFRAM CORNWALL (1735-1789), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY. Signed ...

After Joseph Nollekens. A BRONZE PORTRAIT BUST OF WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER (1759-1806), EARLY 19TH CENTURY.

A MASSIVE STATUARY AND POLYCHROME MARBLE BUST OF AN EMPEROR, PROBABLY ROME, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY. Incorporating Verde Antico, Nero Belgio and Marmo Africano from ancient s...

A COMPANION OF ULYSSES, AFTER THE ANTIQUE BUST IN THE TOWNLEY COLLECTION, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LATE 18TH CENTURY. Statuary Marble. This bust is a late 18th century English co...

A male portrait bust in the Roman manner by Lawrence MacDonald (1799-1878) Carved in Carrara marble, rising from a round socle supporting a waisted column, the bust having resemblances to Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington as a young man. Signed by the artist, 'L. MacDonald, Romae, 1847'. Dated 1847 Dimensions: H: 26 in / 65 cm W: 19.5 in / 49 cm D: 10 in / 26 cm Lawrence MacDonald (1799-1878) Macdonald worked as an ornamental sculptor for the architect James Gillespie Graham before entering the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, in 1822. In Rome, in 1823 he was one of the founders of the British Academy of Art. He returned to Edinburgh in 1826 and became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1829. Four years later he settled in Rome, and from 1844 he worked in Bertel Thorvaldsen's former studio. He became the city's most fashionable portrait sculptor and, according to the Art Journal, his studio was filled with 'the peerage done into marble, a plaster galaxy of rank and fashion'. His sitters included the essayist Henry Taylor...

I could not identify the sitter. Socle base. From a Mississippi collection.

Early 20th Century English Bronze Bust of Walter Scott on Pedestal Beautifully detailed sculpture that will stand proud in any perfectly suited home. Measures: 12" H, 5" W.

cast in white bisque porcelain by the Sevres company and depicting Alexandre Brongiart as a boy, after sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon, the original having been sculpted in the late 18t...