Lot 123 , After the Antique, a white marble figure of The Spinario (Boy with Thorn), H 37cm

After the Antique, a white marble figure of 'The Spinario' (Boy with Thorn), modelled as a youth seated on a rock intent on removing a thorn from his foot, on circular base with Bellman, Ivey & Carter stamp inset verso, H 37cm
Estimate £200-300


According to the National Portrait Gallery's Directory of British bronze founders and plaster figure makers, the Bellman firm originally began with Vincent Bellman (c. 1796-1860), who was working as a plasterer and scagliola manufacturer by the 1830s. Upon Bellman's death in 1860, the business was renamed Bellman and Ivey, under the direction of John Ivey (1794-1874). In the 1880s and 1890s, the firm exhibited and sold sculpture in its premises on Picadilly and then Old Bond Street. This may have been the result of the influence of Charles B. Carter (1856-1928?), a dealer in sculpture, who was associated with the business in the 1890s. (Times, 13 December 1892, 10) From the late 1880s until the early twentieth century, the firm regularly listed exhibitions of 'Bronzes à cire perdue and Russian' and 'Sculpture from Academy and Salon' in The Year's Art.


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Sold for £320