The Bather

Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft, R. A.

Bronze, mid brown patination

Signed and dated "Hamo Thornycroft 1898."

20 3/4 inches (52.5 cm.)

Detail

Photograph from The Studio

Photograph and text by courtesy Robert Bowman.

Robert Bowman and the Fine Art Society, London, have most generously given their permission to use information, images, and text from the catalogue named above in the Victorian Web. Copyright on text and images from their catalogues remains, of course, with them. [GPL]

"Thornycroft exhibited a half-size model of the bather at the Royal Academy in 1898 and a marble version, now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydey, was exhibited in 1902. The Fine Art Society represented the artist and sold the bronze version of the sculpture, liek the present example, in the early 1900s for 150 guineas" — Sir Alfred Gilbert and the New Sculpture 103

Bibliography

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Bowman, Robert. Sir Alfred Gilbert and the New Sculpture. London: The Fine Art Society, 2008.

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