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Sculpture: S0002
Title
Sir Squire Bancroft
Technique
Marble
Subject
Artist
Date
1880
Dimensions
Height: 75.5cm
Width: 56cm
Depth: 27cm
Width: 56cm
Depth: 27cm
Other materials
White marble; on damaged red composition column with black base 107 h., c. 25 diam., base 27.5 sq.
Inscription/signature
“G / 1880” (on verso, touched in with black paint); “S. B. BANCROFT / H. S. H. COUNT GLEICHEN / PRESENTED TO THE GARRICK CLUB / BY S. B. BANCROFT” (incised in column and touched in with gold)
Provenance
Sir Squire Bancroft, by whom presented c. 1893
Other number
Gift No. 237
Exhibition history
1881 London, R. A. (1458)
Related works
See S0001 with which it forms a pair
The Bancrofts took over the Haymarket in 1879, and their management opened there on 31 January 1880. It seems likely that the busts (S0001 and S0002) were commissioned to celebrate the event, and, possibly, to decorate one of the foyers.
