Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from an Important British Private Collection
William Brodie (1815-1881)
Frances, Lady Kinnaird (1817-1910)
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important British Private Collection
William Brodie (1815-1881)
British, dated 1865
Frances, Lady Kinnaird (1817-1910)
white marble, on an Aberdeen granite base
signed and dated: WM BRODIE. R. S. A / Sc 1865
figure: 186cm., 73¼in.
base: 69 by 81 by 81cm., 27¼by 32 by 32in.
George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird (1807-1878), Rossie Priory, Perthshire, Scotland;
Thence by family descent.
Thence by family descent.
Kinnaird family archives, Letter from William Brodie to George, 9th Lord Kinnaird, 26 July 1864;
Kinnaird family archives, Letter from William Brodie, St Helens, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, to George, 9th Lord Kinnaird, 25 December 1866;
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1968, p. 62;
C. B. de Laperriere, The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1991, p. 182, no. 876;
I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 137, no. 8;
H. Smailes, ‘Brodie, William (1815–1881), sculptor,’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004;
'The Rt Hon. Lady Kinnaird', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011
Kinnaird family archives, Letter from William Brodie, St Helens, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, to George, 9th Lord Kinnaird, 25 December 1866;
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1968, p. 62;
C. B. de Laperriere, The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1991, p. 182, no. 876;
I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 137, no. 8;
H. Smailes, ‘Brodie, William (1815–1881), sculptor,’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004;
'The Rt Hon. Lady Kinnaird', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011