Louis-Auguste Malempré

Sotheby's London, 5 December 2012, lot 150 

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1873, no. 1434

A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1906, vol. p. 168, no. 1434

'Malempré created a number of popular subject works in a tender lyrical vein, free of the affectation and cleverness which was often found by English critics to mar continental work' (Ward-Jackson, op. cit. p. 48).

Louis-Auguste Malempré worked as an assistant to the sculptor's William Theed and Henri de Triqueti and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1852-1879. The majority of his work followed popular Victorian Ideal themes such as Innocence (RA 1859) and Spring (RA 1873).

RELATED LITERATURE
P. Ward-Jackson, 'French Modellers in the Potteries,' in P. Atterbury (ed.), The Parian Phenomenon, Shepton Beauchamp, 1989, pp. 48-56