Lot 45: TWO CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF ISABELLA AND GEORGE JEROME WATSO

TWO CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUSTS
OF ISABELLA AND GEORGE JEROME
WATSON TAYLOR
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GIBSON R.A.
(1790-1866), 1816
Each on a circular marble socle, the sitter’s name
inscribed to the reverse, signed and dated to the
reverse ‘I GIBSON FT 1816’ and ‘I G. F.T 1816’
respectively 15 in. (38 cm.) high, and slightly smaller (2)

PROVENANCE:
Probably George W. Watson Taylor, M. P.,
Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire, 1820-1832.
Both busts appear in Claudio Bravo’s painting
Naturaleza Muerta con Esculturas Inglesas, 1991.