Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt (1758-1838)
after Richard Cockle Lucas (Salisbury 1800 – Chilworth 1883)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1841 (after) - 1916
Materials
Marble
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732902
Caption
Sir Richard Colt Hoare inherited Stourhead from Henry the Magnificent on his marriage but it came with the condition that he left his career in the family London bank to run the estate.
Summary
Marble sculpture, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt (1758-1838), after Richard Cockle Lucas (Salisbury 1800 – Chilworth 1883), after 1841. Small full-length marble figure of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, seated in a library chair with legs crossed, reading a book, 1841. After the monument in Salisbury Cathedral by R.C.Lucas (1800-1883).
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Henry Hoare in 1916;
Makers and roles
after Richard Cockle Lucas (Salisbury 1800 – Chilworth 1883), sculptor