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This and the ‘Bacchante at the Bath’ (NT 1221034.1) appear to be replicas or variants of statues that Macdonald had originally carved for other patrons – the ‘Bacchante’, or the ‘Bacchante Weaving Her Hair’ that he had made for Lord Ward in 1849, and the Venus, that he had made for the Hon. A. D. Willoughby (later 22nd Lord Willoughby de Eresby) in 1853 (and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854), and that is now (by descent) at Grimsthorpe Castle. Despite his high reputation in Edinburgh and London, MacDonald returned to Rome in September 1832, where he worked for the rest of his career. After the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, died in 1844, Lawrence took over his studio in the Palazzo Barberini with his brother John MacDonald, who worked as an assistant, succeeded later by his son Alexander.
Title
Venus at the Bath
Date
1856
Medium
Carrara marble
Measurements
H 159.5 x W 57.2 x D 47 cm
Accession number
1221033.1
Work type
Statue
Signature/marks description
signed and dated: L. Macdonald, Fecit Romae, 1856
National Trust, Mount Stewart
Portaferry Road, Newtownards, County Down BT22 2AD England
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