Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A BRONZE HERM BUST OF LORD BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX (1778-1868)
Lot 300

A BRONZE HERM BUST OF LORD BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX (1778-1868)

BY SAMUEL PARKER, 1831

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 500

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A BRONZE HERM BUST OF LORD BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX (1778-1868)
BY SAMUEL PARKER, 1831
Inscribed on the reverse 'Published as the Act Directs March 1 1831 by Sam'l. Parker 12 Argyll Place, London'; together with a French bronze desk clock modelled with military trophies, second quarter 19th century
5½ in. (14 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

Lord Brougham became Lord Chancellor in 1830 and played an important role in the passing of the 1832 Reform Act and the 1833 Anti-Slavery Act. Samuel Parker (fl.1820-1831) made a series of small bronze busts, examples of which are in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.