- Title:
- Trophy
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- This female figure, along with its pair, accompanies a figure of Victory on the façade above the National Gallery’s West Entrance. They, and five related sculptures depicting female figures, are the work of the British neoclassical sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. This pair of women do not carry any attributes, so it is hard to identify who they are.The National Gallery was established in 1824, occupying two sites on Pall Mall before it was opened to the public in its present location on Trafalgar Square by Queen Victoria on 9 April 1838. During the construction of the Trafalgar Square building, its architect, William Wilkins, was forced to use masonry and statuary recycled from other projects in a cost-cutting exercise imposed by the government. This pair of female figures, and a winged pair now holding paintbrushes and palettes, which all now adorn the Gallery’s façade, were originally commissioned by George IV either for Marble Arch or Buckingham Palace.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 2019-12-04
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2019
- Date - latest:
- 2019
- Credit line:
- Commissioned by the Office of Works for the Marble Arch, and installed on the Gallery by 1838
- Current location:
- Gallery Exterior: West Entrance
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/184/738/710/mid_H-0210-00-000004.jpg
- Material:
- Portland stone
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1826-32
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1826
- Date - latest:
- 1832
- Object production person:
- Edward Hodges Baily
- Person's birth date:
- 1788-03-10
- Person's death date:
- 1867-05-22
- Object production place:
- 8 Percy Street
- Other number:
- H210
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0UX2-0008-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- H210
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- R108
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- h2210
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Contextual 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/.
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9e955d7a-183a-375a-b2a9-1a1f845c3979
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9e955d7a-183a-375a-b2a9-1a1f845c3979, National Gallery, CC BY
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