Live Auction 17346Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection
BARON CARLO MAROCHETTI (ITALIAN, 1805-1867)
Lot 131

BARON CARLO MAROCHETTI (ITALIAN, 1805-1867)

The Duke of Wellington

Closed19 September 2019

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GBP 10,000

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BARON CARLO MAROCHETTI (ITALIAN, 1805-1867)
The Duke of Wellington
signed with monogram 'CM' and with foundry inscription 'fondu par Morel & Cie, Londres', on a black marble pedestal
bronze, dark brown patina
17 in. (43 cm.) high, the bronze
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high; 15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) wide; 7 in. (18 cm.) deep, overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 April 1983, lot 199.

Specialist note

The present bronze is either a model for or a reduction from the equestrian statue of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington inaugurated in 1844 at Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, where it remains today.
The son of a servant of the Napoleonic republican government he settled and studied in Paris. After the 1848 revolution Marochetti moved to London where he soon became popular as sculptor for the Royal Family and prominent members of Society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1851-1867 and was elected as a Royal Acadamician in 1866.