Lot 95: FREDERICK JOHN WILLIAMSON (1833-1920) A MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUNG GIRL CIRCA 1875

inscribed F. J. Williamson Sc. Esher 1875.

height 41in. (104cm)

The English sculptor F. J. Williamson trained with John Bell and J. H. Foley. From 1853 to 1897, he exhibited eighty-one works, mainly plasters and marbles of royal and aristocratic children, at the Royal Academy, London. In 1890, he was appointed Sculptor-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, and several of his works remain in the British Royal Collection.