Hammerschlag chronicles the story of Eliza Macloghlin which starts with the death of her husband in 1904. According to Dr Edward Percy Macloghlin's obituary in the Wigan Observer, for some time he ...had been out of health, and his death at the comparatively early age of 45 is sincerely regretted. For Eliza Macloghlin (1863-1928), however, the death of her husband inspired a burst of creative energy, which she wrote an unpublished collection of poems, Sir, What are these, as her husband was dying, and commissioned a sculpture, Morsjanua vitae, as a monument to their relationship. Despite Edward Macloghlin's unexceptional career, his widow was determined to preserve his memory - and her own - at one of the most illustrious medical institutions in the world: the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London.
In 1887, to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the monarch's coronation and the Army and Navy Club's foundation, the Club commissioned a monumental white marble bust of Queen Victoria for display in ...its headquarters in Pall Mall. London. Club members awarded this prestigious commission to the highly regarded young British sculptor. Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934). who completed it in 1889. The bust remained in Club ownership until 2018, when it was saved for the nation after the Fitzwilliam Museum raised funds to prevent its export to New York. A virtuoso example of marble carving, the bust is an astonishingly unidealised yet deeply empathetic portrait of the iconic and oft-portrayed Queen-Empress. A little known and largely ignored masterpiece in Gilbert's oeuvre, this striking bust is reconsidered here. Based on in-depth analysis and careful interpretation of surviving archival documents, as well as other contemporary textual and visual sources, this article pieces together the bust's lengthy, complex commissioning history, situating it within the broader context of Gilbert's mercurial life and work at this time.
Modern British sculpture is featured. This winter the Royal Academy of Arts in London hosts the first major exhibition devoted to twentieth-century British sculpture in thirty years. Rather than a ...chronological survey, the range of works shown--from Alfred Gilbert's 1887 Tribute to Queen Victoria to contemporary pieces by Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, and Richard Long--are organized in thematic juxtapositions.
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