Charles Cumberworth

The female figure formerly had earrings, which are now lacking. Wear to black patina, now showing bronze to tip of finger, nipple, wrist and feet. Scratches to the feet. Minor chips to black marble base, and dirt to gilt bronze with minute green oxidization. The male figure also has losses of black patina around the feet, hands and forehead. Traces of green oxidization around his waist, and dirt to gilt bronze. Minute chips to edges of black marble base to this figure as well.
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Cumberworth was likely born in the United States to an English father and French mother. For his style, Cumberworth is deeply indebted to his teacher, James Pradier, with whom he studied from 1829 to 1836. Side-lined by the Beaux-Arts system, Cumberworth naturally aligned himself with the emerging anti-academic sculptors of Romanticism in the 1830s, such as Feuchere, Dantan, Maindron and Barre.