The Art of Portrait Sculpture

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“Death Mask Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830”

Can be seen at Presence: The Art of Portrait Sculpture

With portraits by artists from Giacometti to Ron Mueck, Presence is a terrific gathering of people carved, cast, modelled in clay or turned to stone. The Observer’s Laura Cumming takes a look at some of the works on show

Presence: The Art of Portrait Sculpture is at the Holburne Museum, Bath, until 2 September

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Phoebe Hoare
Phoebe Hoare
11 years ago

I love the bust of Colley Cibber, makes a nice change to the more popular stoney-faced ones! I learnt about John Dwight’s sculpture of his daughter a while back when researching and came across another sculpture of Lydia resurrected,

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8070/lydia-dwight-resurrected-figure-dwight-john/

Charles Cowling
11 years ago

Phoebe, what a brilliant find!

Phoebe Hoare
Phoebe Hoare
11 years ago

Thank you!