Henry Cheere
Mourning figure
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- Verificato
- 9 giorni fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
About the sculpture
This terracotta is a model for an allegorical figure on a monument to Thomas Archer, a leading architect. Archer designed the monument himself, but commissioned the figures from Henry Cheere, who was one of the few native-born sculptors working in England at this period.
Cheere began his career as an apprentice mason, and had set up his own studio near St. Margaret's Westminster by 1726. Later Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762) worked with him.
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Sir Henry Cheere (1703-1781) was one of the most successful sculptors in mid-18th-century Britain, and unlike some of his more eminent sculptor contemporaries, such as John Michael Rysbrack and Louis François Roubiliac, he was a native of this country. He specialised in portrait busts and tomb sculpture, and in the latter was particularly adept in the use of coloured marbles. He also employed a light, and yet at the same time highly-finished, style that was typical of the Rococo.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- A.11-1934
In catalogo
Fonti
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 9 giorni fa
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
