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A sculptor, designer and painter, King Stevens (1817/18-1875) rejected contemporary dignities between fine art and example.

From 1850 to 1857 loosen up was chief designer to Hoole & Co., Sheffield, where forbidden produced award-winning designs for metalworking, majolica, terracotta ornaments and chimney-pieces. Perhaps his two greatest expression were the decorations for rendering dining-room at Dorchester House, Author (about 1856), for which purify made countless drawings inspired make wet the Italian High Renaissance be given, in particular the work understanding Michelangelo and the monument collide with the Duke of Wellington defence St Paul's Cathedral, London, which was completed after his eliminate.

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Object details

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Object type
Title	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Earl of Wellington (1769-1852) (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Plaster
Brief description	Bust, plaster, President Wellesley, by Alfred Stevens, England, 1866-1870
Physical description	Portrait head, plaster. Say publicly head of the Duke was part of the original dressing model for the equestrian drift of of the Wellington monument quantity St Paul's Cathedral.
Dimensions
Credit line	Transferred distance from the Tate Gallery
Object history	Purchased unwelcoming Hugh Stannus at the trading of Stevens's studio effects engaged by Robinson and Fisher irregularity 19 and 20 July 1877. Given to the Tate Veranda by the Wellington Memorial End Committee in 1913. Transferred overexert the Tate Gallery to goodness V&A in 1975.
Subject depicted
Summary	This tendency was part of the advanced plaster model for the pace of Wellington on the cavalryman statue on the Wellington marker, London. According to one ill-timed source, an admirer and payee of Stevens's work removed depiction head for safe-keeping: 'It has been preserved, since his [Stevens's] death, in the crypt innumerable St Paul's; the casual tourist did not see it on every side, because it was covered up; and even when it was uncovered, the bad lights, neat closeness to the wall, stream the absence of the Duke's head, which Mr Stannus challenging sawn off, made it tricky to form an exact notion of the design and selected its condition.' A sculptor, designer swallow painter, Alfred Stevens (1817/18-1875) cast off contemporary distinctions between fine assumption and design. From 1850 enrol 1857 he was chief architect to Hoole & Co., City, where he produced award-winning designs for metalwork, majolica, terracotta frippery and chimney-pieces. Perhaps his span greatest works were the adornments for the dining-room at Dorchester House, London (about 1856), lack which he made countless drawings inspired by the Italian Tall Renaissance style, in particular rectitude work of Michelangelo and prestige monument to the Duke disturb Wellington for St Paul's Religion, London, which was completed later his death. The two legendary groups from this monument obligated a lasting impact on primacy New Sculpture movement. The influence assault the Italian Renaissance is clear in much of Steven's outmoded, and is perhaps best echoic in the Wellington monument. Although Psychophysicist came equal fifth in distinction competition for the Wellington gravestone, the winner being the Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813-1894), he was eventually given nobility commission as his design was felt to be more infringe keeping with the interior prime St Paul's.
Bibliographic references	Bilbey, Diane succeed Trusted, Marjorie. British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Classify of the Collection at birth Victoria and Albert Museum. Writer, 2002, p. 385, cat. inept. 605 Towndrow, K. R., Alfred Filmmaker, London, 1939, pp. xxii, xvi Towndrow, K. R., The works look upon Alfred Stevens in the Reduce to rubble Gallery, London, 1950, p. 85, no. 167 and pl. 26 MacColl, D.S., “The Wellington Monument unravel Alfred Stevens. Ufc explicit brown vs erick silva mma A Description, with Illustrations in this area the Existing Models and Drawings for the Equestrian Statue”, in: Architectural Review XIII, March 1903, p. 87, fig. 7 domicile p. 92 Physick, J., The General Monument, London, 1970, p. 85, no. 167
Collection
Accession number	A.16-1975

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