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Title:
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John Charles Robinson
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), later Sir Charles Robinson, was a distinguished museum curator, responsible for building the fine collection of Italian renaissance sculpture of the South Kensington Museum, what later became the Victoria and Albert Museum, during its early years from 1857. He had trained as a painter in Paris, and later became a lively etcher, mainly of landscape. In 1856 he founded the Fine Arts Club, which later merged with the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Marochetti, who became acquainted with Robinson around this time, was one of the founder members of the Fine Arts Club. In 1869 Robinson retired from his post at the museum and became an advisor to other collectors. This cast of Marochetti's bust of Robinson was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1929, and was at first exhibited close to the Italian sculpture collections. It has since been moved to the offices of the Sculpture Department. A plaster version of the bust was presented to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford by one of Robinson's descendants. (see D.Bilbey and M.Trusted, British Sculpture 1470-2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002, and J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, vol.2, 2017.)
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Portrait Bust
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Location: |
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1864 |
Height: |
0.38 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
5793 |
Acc. No.: |
5793 |
Col. No.: |
5793 |
Number of views: |
2609 |
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