Francis Philibert Hardenberg, Wellington & Nelsons Busts

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TSFS1469

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£5,995.00 For the Pair

€7,124 Euro
$7,892 US Dollar

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A fabulous pair of Francis Hardenberg painted plaster busts, of Wellington and Nelson.

Nelson has the the sgraffito inscription on the reverse of his plinth reading
"F.Hardenberg 19 Mount Street Gross Square London" this dating the busts within the period he was at that address of 1797-1831

Wellington has had an elderly repair to his plinth above the scole base, where the original signature would have been (please refer to the photographs) But undoubtedly by the same sculpture.

The original ebonised painted finish has some minor knocks, abrasions and discolouration as one would expect. Apart from the elderly repair to Wellington the busts are very much in untouched country house condition.

Hardenberg (active 1783, died 1852), believed of been German born, is documented in Derby in 1783. He worked at Turner’s porcelain factory at Caughley in Staffordshire and then at the Derby porcelain factory in 1788.

Hardenberg came to London, trading as Hardenberg & Co, petrefaction manfacturers, from 1797 at 19 Mount St, his address for the next 35 years, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1800

His work sits within the National Portrait Gallery and the National Trust

both approx 65cm in height, 37cm in width, 22cm in diameter at base

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