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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
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Previous catalogues
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User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
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109-10
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Previous catalogues
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User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
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738
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Key bibliography
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User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
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306-15
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The National Gallery: 1938-1954
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94
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Austen Henry Layard tra l'Oriente e Venezia: Venezia, 26-28 ottobre 1983
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User's reference:
Archaeologists and Aesthetes in the Sculpture Galleries of the British Museum 1800-1939
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155-8
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User's reference:
Handbook of Painting: The Italian Schools
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Nineveh and Its Remains
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Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Giovanni Santi and the Frescoes of Cagli
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Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Fresco of the Death of St Francis
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Early Adventures
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Sir A. Henry Layard, G.C.B., D.C.L.: Autobiography and Letters
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The Earlier Italian Schools
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574
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The British School
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426-30
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The Houses of Parliament
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180
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Assyrian Sculpture
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Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World
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Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
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34.243
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Layard of Nineveh
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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
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Architecture of All Countries
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The National Gallery
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German, Flemish and Dutch Art
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Paper on Mosaic Decoration
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357
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User's reference:
Italian Painters
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The National Portrait Gallery
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Henry Layard: Nineteenth Century Aesthete
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166
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Layard di Ninive, Spinello Aretino e Piero Della Francesca
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Morelli and the Layard Collection: Influence as Intellectual Exchange
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Introduction
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