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Title:
Victory
Object name(s):
Sculpture; British
Brief description:
This Victory is the work of the British neoclassical sculptor, Edward Hodges Baily, as are its pair and another six female figures, which all adorn the façade of the National Gallery.In 1826, Baily received a large order for sculpture, including four statues of ‘Victories’, for Marble Arch, which was to be erected in celebration of Britain’s defeat of the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Although Baily completed his commission, not all of his work was used as originally intended; some parts ended up adorning other government buildings. During the construction of the National Gallery, its architect, William Wilkins, was forced, in a cost-cutting exercise, to recycle masonry and statuary from other projects. This explains the presence above the Gallery's central portico of this statue personifying Victory and its pair, either side of Charles Rossi’s relief depicting Asia and Europe, even though all three pieces were initially created for the Marble Arch commission.
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: Central Portico
Current reproduction location:
614/651/953/mid_H-0208-00-000009.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:
H208
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0UXC-0008-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
H208
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
R106
Other number type:
Previous Object Number
Other number:
h2208
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/cd4971e2-6297-38a7-8a86-baa50a478d81

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cd4971e2-6297-38a7-8a86-baa50a478d81, National Gallery, CC BY

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