LOT DETAILS

Materials:

White marble

Measurements:

24.17 in. (61.40 cm.) (height)

Markings:

signed and dated F. Harwood Fecit 1757 and inscribed OR: CROMWELL

Literature:

I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and Yale, 2009, pp. 585, no, 12 [incorrectly dated 1759]. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: J. Fleming and H. Honour, ‘An English Sculptor in XVIII Century Florence,’ Festschrift Ulrich Middeldorf, Berlin, 1968, pp. 510-516. N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540-Present day, vol. III British, Oxford, 1992, no. 558, pp. 142-3. R. Cremoncini, 'Alcune note su Francis Harwood. La bottega di uno scultore inglese a Firenze in via della Sapienza: nella purezza del marmo, classicità e storia,' Gazzetta Antiquaria, December 1994, pp. 68-73. A. Dawson, Portrait Sculpture, A catalogue of the British Museum Collection c.1675-1975, 1999, p. 77.

Provenance:

The Earls of Granard, Castle Forbes, Newtownforbes, Co.Longford, Ireland.