RICHARD JAMES WYATT | NYMPH GOING TO THE BATH

Marquesses of Crewe, Crewe Hall, Cheshire;

by family descent to the present owner

This impressive statue of a Nymph going to the Bath was carved by Richard James Wyatt (1795-1850.) Wyatt was a highly successful British Neoclassical sculptor who trained in Rome in the workshops of Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen. Two of his most important commissions were a marble version of his Musidora, for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire's new Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth House (in situ,) and a marble statue of Penelope for Albert, the Prince Consort, for Windsor Castle (in situ.) Wyatt designed Nymph going to the Bath in 1831, originally for Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duc de Leuchtenburg, and exhibited the original at the Royal Academy in 1831.

RELATED LITERATURE

J. M. Robinson, The Wyatts. An Architectural Dynasty, Oxford, 1979, pp. 165, 168, fig. 99; I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, New Haven and London, pp. 1424-1427