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A late Victorian carved marble panel depicting St John, the…
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Sydney
Date:
20-Nov-2011
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Description:
A late Victorian carved marble panel depicting St John, the Evangelist in the form of an eagle, possibly from, the workshop of William Brindley (1832-1919) for St Paul's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, London, marked to, the back with an inscribed 'V', 42 wide, 7.5 cm deep, 42 cm high. Note: This marble panel is consistent with, the main marble used in St Paul's Chapel which were Turkish and Greek, grey and white banded Proconnesian which came from, the Turkish Island of Marmara. Farmer & Brindley was a firm of architectural sculptors and ornamentalists based in London, founded by William Farmer (1825-1879) and William Brindley (1832-1919), who contributed to some of the greatest structures of the Victorian era., the firm, located on Westminster bridge Road in London, flourished as stone and woodcarvers in the period of heavily ornamented structures, sometimes supplying sculpted figures, sometimes patterns of exterior ornamentation, sometimes interior woodcarving and church furnishings, and later in the firm's history, supplying marble. Reference: beauty of stone: the Westminster Cathedral Marbles by Patrick Rogers. Provenance: Believed to have come from St Paul's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, London. Wayne Kratzman, Cintra house Galleries, Bowen Hills, Queensland 1981. Margaret Way. Private collection, Queensland
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Unclassified