Lot 469: Joseph Gott: A carved marble group of a young boy

Joseph Gott: A carved marble group of a young boy with a whippet
mid 19th century
damages
84cm.; 33ins high
Joseph Gott (1786-1860) Joseph Gott was apprenticed to John Flaxman for two years. In 1805 he joined the Royal Academy Schools winning a Silver Medal in 1806 and a Gold Medal in 1807.
He spent the majority of his working life in Rome where he was commissioned by a large number of wealthy English patrons engaged on the grand Tour, including The 6th Duke of Devonshire.
As well as executing a large number of portrait busts, funerary monuments and religious sculpture, Gott specialised in the depiction of dogs, especially greyhounds as in this group. This is almost certainly one of the versions of the |Boy with a basket, playing with a greyhound|, listed as being sculpted in 1853, originally in the collection of JE Duboys with another later version in the Musee des Beaux Arts, Angers in 1882 .
Literature; Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, Ingrid Roscoe, 2009, pp541-547