- Title:
- Getty Entrance Sculptures
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- The National Gallery’s Getty Entrance is surmounted with a figure of Victory, framed by another full-length, draped female figure in each of the niches to left and right. This pair of flanking winged figures carry attributes to identify who they are: both clasping a palette and paintbrushes, they symbolise the art of painting fostered inside the building. All three statues are the work of the British neoclassical sculptor Edward Hodges Baily, although he made them not for the National Gallery but for the Marble Arch, a monument intended to celebrate Britain’s defeat of the French in the Napoleonic Wars. When the figures were repurposed to adorn the nation’s public art gallery in a cost-cutting exercise, their original military accoutrements of spear and shield were transformed into more appropriate brushes and palettes.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Material:
- Portland stone
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1826-32
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1826
- Date - latest:
- 1832
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- 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:
- GROUP161
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0UY2-0008-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- H213-H215
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- H213-H215
- Other number type:
- Display Number
- Other number:
- group2161
- 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/ca68f6a6-911e-3086-a68f-cbe1c95fcb37
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ca68f6a6-911e-3086-a68f-cbe1c95fcb37, National Gallery, CC BY
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