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SM HR3. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Sir Richard Westmacott RA (1775 - 1856), sculptor
Figure of a nymph
Plaster
Height: 180cm
Width: 60cm
Depth: 60cm
Width: 60cm
Depth: 60cm
Museum number: HR3
On display: Picture Room Recess (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This plaster figure was placed in the Picture Room Recess on the completion of the Picture Room in 1824 - where it forms the centrepiece of the theatrical mise en scène created by the opening of the south planes of the Picture Room. It was probably the preparatory model for the marble version (Exhib. RA 1824, No. 1009: A Nymph, A Statue in marble. R. Westmacott R.A.) which was at Castle Howard in Yorkshire until its destruction in a fire in November 1940.
Literature
M. Busco, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sculptor, CUP, 1994
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