Nymph and Cupid (Cupid made Prisoner)
Sir Richard Westmacott II, RA (London 1775 - London 1856)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1827 (exh)
Materials
Marble
Measurements
1520 mm high
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486402
Summary
Marble, Nymph and Cupid by Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856). Exhibited in 1827 as 'Cupid made Prisoner', this group is typical of the mythological works produced by Westmacott during the 1820s under the influence of contemporary Italian sculpture, and of Canova in particular.
Provenance
Acquired by 3rd Earl of Egremont thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
98 (painted on front of base)
Makers and roles
Sir Richard Westmacott II, RA (London 1775 - London 1856), sculptor
References
Guilding 2014 Ruth Guilding, Owning the Past : Why the English collected Antique Sculpture, 1640 - 1840, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, 2014, p. 269