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Title:
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Henry Beresford 3rd Marquess of Waterford
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is probably the bust of the 3rd Marquess of Waterford, which Marochetti exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861. It was commissioned, as was the effigy of the Marquess in Clonegam church, by Louisa Marchioness of Waterford, following the subject's death. It shows the Marquess in the armour he wore at the Eglinton Tournament of 1839, but looking as he did immediately before he died, and with a beard, which he did not have at the time of the tournament. Louisa Lady Waterford kept this bust beside her bed at her home, Ford, in Northumberland. It was returned to Curraghmore, after she died. Marochetti's wife, nee Camille de Maussion, had known the daughters of Lord Stuart de Rothsay, one of whom married the Marquess of Waterford, as a girl, at the time when their father was British ambassador in Paris. The other sister, Charlotte, married Charles John, Earl Canning. (see Augustus Hare, "The Story of Two Noble Lives, Charlotte Countess Canning and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford", London 1893) Following the Indian Mutiny, both sisters, and Earl Canning, who was then Governor General of India, advised on the form of the memorial which Marochetti created, to the victims of the massacre of Cawnpore.
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Material(s): |
Marble
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
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Natural |
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Carved |
Genre: |
Portrait Bust
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Year: |
1861 |
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Key: |
5744 |
Acc. No.: |
5744 |
Col. No.: |
5744 |
Number of views: |
873 |
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