Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 348

A PLASTER GROUP

BY SIR JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHM (1834-1890), DATED 1883

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 4,375

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A PLASTER GROUP
BY SIR JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHM (1834-1890), DATED 1883
John Brown leading a highland pony carrying a stag, inscribed 'BOEHM fecit, 1886', in an ebonised glass case, on pane missing
The model - 23¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This model, dated 1886, would appear to be a proposal for the statue of Prince Albert's deer-stalking ghillie John Brown (d.1883), which was commissioned for Balmoral, Perthshire by Queen Victoria in commemoration of the loyalty of 'her Friend more than Servant'. The Balmoral Estate had been purchased by the Queen in 1852. The statue, lacking the horse, was executed by Sir Joseph Boehm (d.1890).