Two Early 19thC Grand Tour Bronze Portrait Busts of Philosophers sub-Macabre- Medicine Remaining in good overall condition

Remaining in good overall condition considering its relative fragility

something few animals could do

Mannequins were usually quite ephemeral and the focus wasn’t on them being made to last though with these being carved in pine rather than plaster for instance suggests they may have been part of a more important composition

The quality of the work is shown in the way the emotion is so well captured

A veritable hamlet of wonderful figures that instantly light up any surface as a group

Two Early 19thC Grand Tour Bronze Portrait Busts of Philosophers sub-Macabre- Medicine Remaining in good overall conditionOrigin: Italian Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1820 30 4. 5 & 4. 25 high x 2 deep x 3 wide The small well cast dark patinated bronze portrait busts of Greek philosophers, after the antique, each on circular turned socles, surviving from the early part of the nineteenth century and the Grand Tour period. In good overall condition the busts have not had any restoration or cleaning taken to them with the darkness to the bronze creating