Catherine Andras1775–1860
Unknown Man
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ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館
ロンドン, イギリス
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- 確認
- 9 日前
- この状態になった日
- 2026年9月25日
- 出典
- 美術館自身の所蔵データ
About the sculpture
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. Wax was well suited to being cast and reproduced many times over from the same mould in order to propagate an image.
The popularity of wax portraits was in part driven by their links with other types of portrait manufacture such as ceramic medallions.
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The process of making a portrait in wax would begin with a model in plasticine or soft wax which would be worked using ivory or wooden tools in much the same way as a model in clay. A plaster mould would then be made and molten wax poured into it. The relief would be hand-finished by the artist.
Catherine Andras was appointed Modeller in Wax to Queen Charlotte in 1802.
ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- A.137-1965
What it shows
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出典
- ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館: the museum's own open data · 9 日前に取得
- 画像： ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館 — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
