Lorenzo BartoliniItalia, 1777–1850The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz
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The two dancing figures seen in this sculpture depict Emma and Julia Campbell, the youngest daughters of Lady Charlotte Campbell, who was herself the youngest daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll. The cost of the sculpture, according to Bartolini’s accounts, was 500 luigi, about £500. The young women’s uncle, Lady Charlotte’s brother, the 6th Duke of Argyll, could have commissioned it. The identities of the sculpted figures were established by the writer Mary Berry (1763-1852). She wrote in her Journal on 7 June, 1821: ‘Dined at the Lockes with Bartolini, at whose house we had been to see … two of the young Campbells, Emma and Julia, grouped as dancers, now modelled in terra cotta. The pose of the figures is really charming, and the drapery simple and flowing, without affectation.’
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After the death of Antonio Canova in 1822, Lorenzo Bartolini was arguably the greatest living Italian sculptor. He was virtually without an artistic rival in the field of sculpture in his native land from 1838 until his death in 1850. Specialising in portraiture, but also producing mythological and genre subjects in marble, Bartolini combined a pure classicist style with the naturalism which came from his training and working in France.
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- A.8:1,2-2015
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