£1,500 - £2,500
Edward William Wyon (1811-1885) - White Carrera Parian - Bust of The Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, circa 1853, modelled in classical drapery and on circular socle, with impressed "E W Wyon F" mark to back, 15ins high
Note: Edward William Wyon studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1829, and became a celebrated sculptor, exhibiting at the Royal Academy regularly from 1831 to 1876. Among his commissions were works intended for reproduction by Wedgwood and numerous portrait busts such as this one. He executed reliefs for Drapers’ Hall, London (1866), and two caryatids for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1874). There are versions of this work in both marble and Parian ware (a technique perfected by Wedgwood which created a white ceramic body in exact imitation of Carrera marble, but at a fraction of the cost).
The bust was designed by Edward William Wyon and produced by Wedgwood in 1853 as a posthumous tribute. An advertisement about the bust was placed in The Illustrated London News on May 7, 1853, several months after Wellington was laid to rest in St Paul's Cathedral. It showed an artistic re-imagining of the bust in an engraving.
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