Boy on a Dolphin (after Bartolomeo Cavaceppi)
Joseph Nollekens, RA (London 1737 – London 1823)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Marble
Measurements
60 x 36 x 20 cm
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852226
Summary
White marble sculpture on white marble socle on a marble plinth and tri-form column in pink granite, Boy on a Dolphin (after Bartolomeo Cavaceppi) by Joseph Nollekens, RA (London 1737 – London 1823). This was formerly at Downhill and was bought by the Earl-Bishop probably on his first visit to Rome in 1765, and highly prized by him as a work by Raphael. It is however, almost certainly an early work of Nollekens, after an original by the 'antique restorer', Cavaceppi.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Bought by the Earl-Bishop for Downhill.
Makers and roles
Joseph Nollekens, RA (London 1737 – London 1823), sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (Rome c.1716 - Rome 1799), sculptor