- Title:
- Sir Austen Henry Layard
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- Austen Henry Layard (1817--1894) commissioned this marble bust of himself from the sculptor John Warrington Wood in Rome in 1881. It was remodelled from a bust sculpted by Wood in London in 1869, which was exhibited the following year at the Royal Academy. Layard was not pleased with the original bust so had this version made 12 years later. It is chiselled 'AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD' across the front.Layard's archaeological excavations in Assyria made his name while he was still only in his early thirties. Most of his massive finds from Nimrud and Nineveh now form the greater part of the British Museum's collection of Assyrian antiquities.He entered Parliament and held Cabinet office; served as ambassador in Madrid and Constantinople; became a Trustee of the National Gallery; and built up a large collection of paintings, mainly of works by Italian artists, most of which he bequeathed to the National Gallery.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1943-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1943
- Date - latest:
- 1943
- Acquisition source:
- Vice-Admiral Arthur John Layard Murray
- Credit line:
- Presented by Vice-Admiral Arthur John Layard Murray, 1943
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/974/49/792/mid_N-5449-00-000011.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.00
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25.50
- Form:
- Structural
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated and inscribed
- Material:
- marble, carved
- Material:
- carving
- Material:
- Carrara marble
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1881
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1881
- Date - latest:
- 1881
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- John Warrington Wood
- Person's birth date:
- 1839
- Person's death date:
- 1886
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Other number:
- NG5449
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EG8-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG5449
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02O1-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng35449
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- portraits
- Style:
- realist
- Style:
- Victorian
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 181-2
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 109-10
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 738
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 306-15
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: 1938-1954
- Reference details:
- 94
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Austen Henry Layard tra l'Oriente e Venezia: Venezia, 26-28 ottobre 1983
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Archaeologists and Aesthetes in the Sculpture Galleries of the British Museum 1800-1939
- Reference details:
- 155-8
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Handbook of Painting: The Italian Schools
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
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- User's reference:
- Nineveh and Its Remains
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- User's reference:
- Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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- User's reference:
- Giovanni Santi and the Frescoes of Cagli
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Fresco of the Death of St Francis
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- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Early Adventures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Sir A. Henry Layard, G.C.B., D.C.L.: Autobiography and Letters
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 574
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The British School
- Reference details:
- 426-30
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- Reference type:
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- User's reference:
- The Houses of Parliament
- Reference details:
- 180
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
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- User's reference:
- Assyrian Sculpture
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- Reference type:
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- User's reference:
- Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World
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- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
- Reference details:
- 34.243
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Layard of Nineveh
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Architecture of All Countries
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- German, Flemish and Dutch Art
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Paper on Mosaic Decoration
- Reference details:
- 357
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Italian Painters
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Portrait Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Henry Layard: Nineteenth Century Aesthete
- Reference details:
- 166
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Layard di Ninive, Spinello Aretino e Piero Della Francesca
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- Select Bibliography
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Morelli and the Layard Collection: Influence as Intellectual Exchange
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Introduction
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- Reference type:
- reference
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