Live Auction 12938THE CLAUDIO BRAVO COLLECTION: FROM THE ARTIST'S STUDIO AND HOME, MOROCCO
TWO CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF ISABELLA AND GEORGE JEROME WATSON TAYLOR
Lot 45

TWO CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF ISABELLA AND GEORGE JEROME WATSON TAYLOR

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GIBSON R.A. (1790-1866), 1816

Closed13 July 2016

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GBP 2,500

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TWO CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF ISABELLA AND GEORGE JEROME WATSON TAYLOR
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GIBSON R.A. (1790-1866), 1816
Each on a circular marble socle, the sitter's name inscribed to the reverse, signed and dated to the reverse 'I GIBSON FT 1816' and 'I G. F.T 1816' respectively
15 in. (38 cm.) high, and slightly smaller

Probably George W. Watson Taylor, M. P., Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire, 1820-1832.

Specialist note

Both busts appear in Claudio Bravo's painting Naturaleza Muerta con Esculturas Inglesas, 1991. The bust of George Jerome Watson Taylor also appears in his painting Naturaleza Muerta con Vela, 1983 (P. Bowels and M. Vargas Llosa, Claudio Bravo Pinturas y Dibujos, Madrid, 1996, pp. 109 and 188).