A Young Girl
John Hutchison (Edinburgh 1833 - Edinburgh 1910)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1880 (signed and dated)
Materials
Marble
Measurements
430 x 240 x 200 mm
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246898
Summary
Marble, A Young Girl, by John Hutchison (Edinburgh 1833 - Edinburgh 1910), signed and dated J. HUTCHISON/R.S.A./EDINr 1880. A bust of a young girl, her covered head lowered to left, wearing a tunic. On a circular marble socle and a revolving walnut stand. The subject has traditionally been interpreted as Margaret McEwan, later The Hon. Mrs Ronald Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942), who would have been 17 in 1880. In that year Hutchison exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, a bronze bust of 'Marietta, a Roman Girl' (no. 778; he exhibited a marble bust of the same subject in 1861, no. 812).
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey Entrance Hall, page 1.
Credit line
Polesden Lacey, The McEwan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
J. HUTCHISON/R.S.A./EDINr 1880.
Makers and roles
John Hutchison (Edinburgh 1833 - Edinburgh 1910), sculptor