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Title:
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Robert Lamond
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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In 1849 Marochetti executed this bust of Robert Lamond, and also one of his wife, Catherine Mathie Lamond, the daughter of a dyer from Stirling. Her bust (see entry) is now in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow. Her husband, whose profession is given in various directories as a "writer", was one of those who had been on the sub-committee for the statue of the Duke of Wellington, which had been commissioned from Marochetti following an international competition in 1840, and which was inaugurated there in 1844. (see entry) In the intervening years Marochetti had remained in contact with his Glaswegian friends, and, while still resident in France in 1847 had donated a cast of the classical group the Laocoon to the Government School of Design in the city (The Atlas, 28 Aug. 1847). After he moved to London in 1848 it was reported in the papers that he had gone to Glasgow "on a visit to some of the members of the committee on the Wellington monument". (The Sun, 20 Oct. 1848). The Lamond couple were not the only Glaswegian subjects whose portraits by Marochetti date from 1849. There is a portrait relief of James Oswald M.P. for the city , and a bust of Andrew Stephenson Dalglish, another member of the Wellington committee (see entries). On 14 August 1849 Queen Victoria visited Glasgow, and in the following year a movement was set in motion to raise some sort of commemoration of this occasion (Northern Daily Mail, 30 Aug. 1850). Once again Lamond and Dalglish were on the committee and once again it was Marochetti who was commissioned to create an equestrian statue of the Queen, which was erected in Glasgow in 1845 (see entry). These Glasgow portraits are formal but gritty representations of their subjects, a marked contrast to the idealised and courtly portrait of Prince Albert on which Marochetti was working at exactly this time. However, all provide a fascinating insight into the artistic strategies which he employed to appeal to his new client base in Britain. Portrait busts were a novelty in his oeuvre at this time, but this group show him responding rather well to the challenge. (Photo: Art UK)
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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: |
Glasgow, Royal Faculty of Procurators, , ,
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Year: |
1849 |
Height: |
0.65 metres |
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0 metres |
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0 metres |
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Key: |
5864 |
Acc. No.: |
5864 |
Col. No.: |
5864 |
Number of views: |
2604 |
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