Count Alberto Bevilacqua
Hendrik Andersen (Bergen 1872 - Rome 1940)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1899
Materials
Painted terracotta
Measurements
480 x 480 x 270 mm
Order this imageCollection
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex
NT 204249
Summary
Painted terracotta, Count Alberto Bevilacqua by Hendrik Andersen (Bergen 1872 - Rome 1940), 19th century. A portrait bust.
Provenance
Purchased by Henry James (1843-1916) for $250 after he saw it in Hendrik Andersen's studio in Rome in 1899 (In a letter to Hans Christian Anderson, July 19th, 1919, Henry James wrote of the bust of Count Bevilacqua, "I shall have him constantly before me as a loved companion and friend. He is so loving, so human, and so sympathetic, sociable and curious, that I forsee it will be a lifelong attachment. Brave little Bevilacqua..." in H. Montgomery-Hyde, The Story of Lamb House, p. 75); in the "Inventory of Contents of the Oak Parlour, Hall and Telephone Room, Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, January 1975" (a copy of which is in the archive at National Trust Area Office, Scotney Castle, Lamb House file F.); given by Mrs Giovanna B. Kirby.
Makers and roles
Hendrik Andersen (Bergen 1872 - Rome 1940), sculptor
Exhibition history
Henry James and American Art,, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2017 - 2018