Antonio Frilli (Italian, d. 1892)

A highly technical sculptor, Anontio Frilli's skill is abundantly evident in the present example which embodies the principles of late 19th century academic art. Frilli's sculptures are quintessentially late Victorian, and they represent the absolute pinnacle of the fashionable taste of the time, such as Orientalism.
Although little is know of the life of Frilli, the prolific gallery run by him produced a variety of commercial sculptures in marble, alabaster and bronze. He is first recorded as an exhibitor at the Espozione Nazionale di Roma in 1883, and he further exhibited in Glasgow in 1888 and Paris in 1889. He was one of a circle of renowned Florentine sculptors that comprised Cesare Lapini, Guglielmo Pugi and Ferdinando Vichi.