Dr J. C. Crouch

Dr J. Crouch is shown in almost full relief, facing to the front. Depicted in late middle age with balding hair, he sits holding a mortar board in his left hand and in his right he supports an open book.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.