Live Auction 5934The Sunday Sale - The Collection of the Late Christopher Wood
Lot 152

A VICTORIAN BRONZE BUST OF THE YOUNG QUEEN VICTORIA

AFTER SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY, DATED 1849

Closed8 November 2009

Price Realised

GBP 3,000

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A VICTORIAN BRONZE BUST OF THE YOUNG QUEEN VICTORIA
AFTER SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY, DATED 1849
Modelled facing frontally and glancing to dexter, her plaited hair with a tiara centred by a crown, wearing a décolletage and Order of the Garter, on a spreading circular socle, inscribed to the reverse 'EXECUTED IN BRONZE BY J.A.HATFIELD FROM A REDUCED COPY T.THORNYCROFT/AFTER CHANTREY/FOR THE ART UNION OF LONDON/1849'
18½ in. (47 cm.) high

Specialist note

The Art Union of London was founded in 1837 to foster and encourage interest in the fine arts. Members paid an annual subscription of one guinea, which subsidized the Society's activities and gave each member the chance of winning a prize picture or sculpture. An example of this sculpture is discussed in Charles Avery, Studies in European Sculpture II, Christie's, London, 1988.