LOT DETAILS
Materials:
marble
Size Notes:
overall
Description:
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Markings:
Signed and dated 'Nollekens Ft. 1799' to the reverse
Literature:
J. Kenworthy-Browne, ‘The Temple of Liberty at Woburn Abbey’, in Apollo, CXXX, July 1989, p. 32. M. Princess of Liechtenstein. Holland House, London, 1874, vol. I, p. 139. I. Roscoe, ed., A Biographical Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 2009, p. 907, no. 238. D. Wilson, ‘The Boy in the Temple, Joseph Nollekens’ lost portrait bust of Bob St John’, British Art Journal, vol. VII, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2006, p. 21.
Provenance:
Commissioned by Charles James Fox for the Temple of Friendship at St. Anne's House, Surrey, recorded there in 1803, and remained until dispersed, probably in the late 1990s or 2000s.