Lot 355: EDWARD ONSLOW FORD R.A. (1852-1901)

EDWARD ONSLOW FORD R.A. (1852-1901)
Linos
signed 'Onslow-Ford' and initialled to the underside 'A.R.'
bronze, dark brown patina
15 in. (38 cm.) high

M. H. Dixon, 'Onslow Ford, ARA', in Magazine of Art, 1892, pp. 320-25.
E. Gosse, 'The New Sculpture', Art Journal, 1894, pp. 280-1.
M. H. Dixon, 'Onslow Ford, RA', Art Journal&i, 1898, pp. 294-7.
M. H. Spielmann, 'E. Onslow Ford, RA: In Memoriam', Magazine of
Art, 1902, pp. 181-4.
S. Beattie, The New Sculpture, New Haven and London, 1983, p. 150

with William Agnew & Company Ltd.

The full size bronze version of Onslow Ford's Linos, now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884. Although the sculptor had made his debut in 1875, it was the current work which signalled the beginning of his career as one of the foremost artists of the New Sculpture movement.