Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
A VICTORIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GRENADIER GUARDSMAN
Lot 236

A VICTORIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GRENADIER GUARDSMAN

CAST BY ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, FROM THE MODEL BY SIR JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHM, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 6,000

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A VICTORIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GRENADIER GUARDSMAN
CAST BY ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, FROM THE MODEL BY SIR JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHM, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Modelled in full uniform, on a square base incised 'GRENADIER 1st GUARDS 1815, J.E.BOEHM.SCR' and stamped 'ELKINGTON & CO', on an ebonised plinth base
22¾ in. (58 cm.) high

Almost certainly acquired by George, 3rd Baron Raglan (1857-1921) who was a Grenadier Guardsman.

Specialist note

This bronze was designed by Sir Joseph Boehm to stand at the Corner of the monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, at Hyde Park Corner. The monument was unveiled on 21 December 1888 by the Prince of Wales, having been commissioned as part of the re-design of Hyde Park corner which had begun in 1883. It features the Duke of Wellington astride his horse Copenhagen atop a plinth, at each corner of which is a soldier from the four nations of the United Kingdom. The monument was Boehm's most ambitious, expensive and prominently located commission, and was designed by him between 1884-8. Elkington & Co. produced a limited number of the corner figures.