Sculpture: S0017

Title

Johann Reinhold Forster

Technique

Wax

Subject

Forster, Johann Reinhold

Artist

Unknown

Date

c.1770

Dimensions

Height: 8cm
Width: 5.6cm
Depth: 3.5cm

Other materials

Tinted wax mounted on black paper; frame 15.2 diam

Provenance

Ludo Foster, by whom presented to the Garrick Club, 1944

Related works

An engraving by an unidentified artist captioned "JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER / JOHANN GEORG FORSTER"; this engraving is also the source for a portrait medallion of Forster, modelled by Joachim Smith for Wedgwood 1776 [an example of which is in the Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery], and illustrated in Robin Reilly, "Wedgwood Portrait Medallions" (National Portrait Gallery, London 1973) No.33. See B0136

Once believed to be a possible portrait of David Garrick. However the profile does not resemble Garrick's, despite the sagging chin. The sitter has now been identified as the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster.