Urania (after the Antique)
possibly John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1760 - 1769
Materials
Lead
Measurements
1750 mm (Height)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 562883
Summary
Lead sculpture, Urania, possibly by John Cheere (1709 – London 1787), 1760s. Lead statue of Urania, after the antique, supplied by John Cheere. Original appears to have belonged to a 'Monsieur Berton' at Rome, now lost and a vesrion with a lower left arem was in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, recorded in Willem van Haecht's 1628 painting of the Picture Gallery of Cornelis van de Geest (Rubenshuis, Antwerp). This lead cast presumably made by Cheere in the 1760s, from Matthew Brettingham junior's moulds, for the Temple of Apollo. Removed to West Garden 1903-4.
Provenance
Original appears to have belonged to a 'Monsieur Berton' at Rome, now lost.
Makers and roles
possibly John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787), sculptor Matthew Brettingham the Younger (1725 - 1803), mould maker