Lady Bearsted’s horse
Arthur Immanuel Lowenthal (1879 - 1964)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1936 - 1941
Materials
Bronze and marble
Measurements
402 x 480 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446634
Summary
Bronze statuette by Artur Immanuel Loewental (1879-1964) of a standing horse, mounted on integral bronze base-plate, in term set on a green marble base. Probably to be identified as a sculpture of Lady Bearsted’s favourite horse. Signed on the base A. LŒWENTAL.
Full description
Artur Immanuel Loewental was a talented sculptor who specialised in the production of portrait medals of his contemporaries. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1879, he was already by 1898 recorded as producing medals and portrait plaques of prominent individuals in the Jewish community of Vienna. In 1900 he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, where he completed his studies as a sculptor. Throughout the First World War and subsequently, Loewental lived in Berlin, but in 1934 he emigrated from Germany to Britain, where he remained until his death in 1964. He continued in Britain to sculpt numerous medals, as well as other sculptures. Lord Bearsted, who actively assisted Jewish people to emigrate from Germany, provided the newly arrived Loewental with a number of commissions in the 1930s. In 1941, after he had moved to Lincoln, Artur Loewental mounted at the Usher Gallery the largest ever exhibition of his work. Among the intaglios in rock crystal was (no. 112) ‘Lady Bearsted’s favourite horse’ (John T. Turner, Artur Immanuel Loewental 1879-1964. A brief introduction to his life and work, together with a select list of his sculpted works, Lincoln 2014, p. 34). The sculpture of the favourite horse of Lady Bearsted, a keen horsewoman, was presumably a private commission from her husband. Jeremy Warren, 2018
Provenance
Commissioned by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, c. 1936-41; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882–1948), in 1948.
Credit line
National Trust Collections (Upton House, The Bearsted Collection)
Marks and inscriptions
Bronze base: Signature of artist, in rectangular bronze base: .A. LŒWENTAL.
Makers and roles
Arthur Immanuel Lowenthal (1879 - 1964), sculptor