Unknown Man
Relief
1818 (Made)
1818 (Made)
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An unknown man is shown in relief, in pink wax on black glass. He is dressed in a five button frock coat.
Poole worked as a sculptor and a wax modeller in London and was appointed Medallion modeller to the Prince of Wales.
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.
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.
Poole worked as a sculptor and a wax modeller in London and was appointed Medallion modeller to the Prince of Wales.
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.
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.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Unknown Man |
| Materials and techniques | Wax in giltwood frame |
| Brief description | Relief, Wax, English, by T.R. Poole, 1818 |
| Physical description | The profile relief, in pink wax on black glass, of an unknown man is shown facing to the left. he is dressed in a five-buttoned frock coat. The wax is signed on the truncation. |
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| Credit line | From the Bate collection |
| Object history | From the Mary Bate Collection, ex. loan 41. Bought from Philip Bate for £90. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | An unknown man is shown in relief, in pink wax on black glass. He is dressed in a five button frock coat. Poole worked as a sculptor and a wax modeller in London and was appointed Medallion modeller to the Prince of Wales. 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. 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Pyke, E.J. A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford, 1973, p. 113. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.33-1970 |
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| Record created | March 18, 2004 |
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