Live Auction 7663Fasque The Scottish Seat of the Gladstones
AN ENGLISH BRONZED PLASTER BUST OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Lot 256

AN ENGLISH BRONZED PLASTER BUST OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

CAST FROM A MODEL BY ALBERT BRUCE-JOY, CIRCA 1882

Closed7 May 2008

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GBP 1,000

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AN ENGLISH BRONZED PLASTER BUST OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
CAST FROM A MODEL BY ALBERT BRUCE-JOY, CIRCA 1882
Depicted with head turned slightly to dexter, wearing tie, waistcoat and doublet, the reverse indistinctly inscribed 'A. Bruce Joy/A.D.'
32 in. (81 cm.) high

Specialist note

This bronzed plaster bust appears to be a cast of Albert Bruce-Joy's successful bronze memorial statute to Gladstone in St. Mary's Churchyard, Bow, London, commissioned by Theodore H. Bryant and unveiled on 9 August 1882 by The Rt. Hon. Lord Charlingford.