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Samuel Carter Hall

Bust
1834 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This bust representing Samuel Carter Hall, is made by Henry Behnes Burlowe (1796 or 1802 - d. Rome 1837) in England in 1834. The sitter Samuel Carter Hall was a writer and the editor of the Art Journal.

There is confusion over the date of birth for Burlowe (d. Rome 1837); Gunnis records a date of 1802, whereas the entry by Brockwell in Thieme-Becker suggests he was born in Dublin in about 1796. Burlowe was the younger brother of the sculptor William Behnes. Henry exhibited under the name of Burlowe to avoid confusion between the two. He exhibited busts at the Royal Academy in 1831 and 1833, and in 1834 travelled to Rome, where he was in demand as a portrait sculptor, until his death from cholera in 1837.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSamuel Carter Hall (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Marble
Brief description
Bust, marble, of Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), by Henry Behnes Burlowe, 1833
Physical description
Sitter looking to the right. Signed on the back and inscribed across the back of the shoulders.
Dimensions
  • Height: 84cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'HB. BURLOWE / SCULPTOR / AND PHRENOLOGIST / LONDON / 1834' (across the back of the shoulders)
  • 'SAMUEL CARTER HALL' (inscribed across the back of the shoulders)
Object history
Previously recoreded at the Bethnal Green Museum, the present object was unregistered until it was written on by the Museum in 2000. It was certainly at Bethnal Green at a date prior to 1953, when it was noted by Gunnis (Gunnis 19953, p. 70).
Subject depicted
Summary
This bust representing Samuel Carter Hall, is made by Henry Behnes Burlowe (1796 or 1802 - d. Rome 1837) in England in 1834. The sitter Samuel Carter Hall was a writer and the editor of the Art Journal.

There is confusion over the date of birth for Burlowe (d. Rome 1837); Gunnis records a date of 1802, whereas the entry by Brockwell in Thieme-Becker suggests he was born in Dublin in about 1796. Burlowe was the younger brother of the sculptor William Behnes. Henry exhibited under the name of Burlowe to avoid confusion between the two. He exhibited busts at the Royal Academy in 1831 and 1833, and in 1834 travelled to Rome, where he was in demand as a portrait sculptor, until his death from cholera in 1837.
Bibliographic references
  • Bilbey, Diane and Trusted, Marjorie. British Sculpture 1470-2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002, p. 227, cat.no. 345
  • Gunnis, R., Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1953, p. 70
  • Gunnis, R., Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (revised edition, first published London 1953), London, 1968, p. 70
  • Kilmurray, E., Dictionary of British Portraiture, The Victorians – historical figures born between 1800 and 1860, III, London, 1981, p. 86
Other number
SCP.LOST.61 - Previous LOST number
Collection
Accession number
A.5-2000

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Record createdJune 1, 2000
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