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Title:
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Augusta Bromley Davenport
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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Augusta Elizabeth Campbell (b.1821) married William Bromley Davenport in 1858, when she would have been around the age of 37. The bust seems to represent her at a slightly younger age. It is likely that her mother-in-law, Caroline Anne Davenport (nee Hurt) was responsible for the choice of Marochetti as artist. Caroline Anne was the widow of the intellectual and literary Whig Politician Edward Davies Davenport, who had died in 1847. Before her re-marriage to Lord Hatherton in 1852, she remained in residence at Capesthorne Hall, home of the Davenport family, and, as an enthusiastic advocate of Italian unification, and the widow of a great lover of Italian literature, she had entertained the Piedmontese politician, Massimo D'Azeglio, a friend of Marochetti, during a visit to England in 1849. We know that as Lady Hatherton she was closely involved in the movement to have Marochetti's statue of Richard Coeur de Lion, erected permanently in London, after the closure of the Great Exhibition. (see Lettere Inedite di Massimo d'Azeglio al Marchese Emanuele d'Azeglio, Turin, 1883, and The Letters of Richard Cobden, (ed. Anthony Howe) Oxford University Press, 2010, vol.II, pp.503-4)
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Material(s): |
Marble
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
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Technique: |
Carved |
Genre: |
Portrait Bust
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Location: |
Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, , ,
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Year: |
1858 |
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Key: |
5791 |
Acc. No.: |
5791 |
Col. No.: |
5791 |
Number of views: |
2644 |
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