Live Auction 17736Property from descendants of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary
FRANCIS JOHN WILLIAMSON (BRITISH, 1833–1920)
Lot 101 Property from The Earls of Harewood

FRANCIS JOHN WILLIAMSON (BRITISH, 1833–1920)

Prince George of Wales

Closed13 December 2019

Price Realised

GBP 4,000

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FRANCIS JOHN WILLIAMSON (BRITISH, 1833–1920)
Prince George of Wales
signed and dated 'F J. WILLIAMSON. Sc./ ESCHER. 1875', and inscribed 'PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES'
plaster, grey-painted
21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) high

Probably the gift of the sitter, later HM George V (1865-1936), to his daughter, HRH The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965) and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.

Specialist note

A one-time pupil of John Bell, apprentice and then studio assistant to John Foley for over twenty years, Francis John Williamson (d. 1920) was the private sculptor to Queen Victoria during the 1880s and 1890s. For the Royal Family he executed large numbers of portrait busts in marble - Prince Alemayehu of Abyssinia (signed and dated 1880); Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, at Osborne House; Arthur, Duke of Connaught (signed and dated 1885), as well as Alfred, Lord Tennyson (signed and dated 1893) at Windsor.