The Great Grandson of Sir Edgar Bertram MacKennal has publiched a seven volume series of books in memory of his  grandfather called
                                Triumph of Truth
                 (Who's Watching The Watchers?)
                                             published by
                           the Australian Weekend News
to carry on Sir Edgar Bertram MacKennal's
life  search for the truth in his art

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Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal  Truth, 1894   sold: Apr 22, 2008 lot detail
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal  Truth, 1894  sold: May 4, 2004  lot detail


Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal Head of a woman (Mary Anderson), 1888 sold: Apr 16, 2008  lot detail

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Artist   Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal Title   Truth Medium   bronze Size   26 x 7.3 x 6.3 in. / 66 x 18.5 x 16 cm. Year   1894 - Description   Inscribed with title and stamped with foundry stamp on base Bronze Executed... Misc.   Inscribed, Stamped Sale Of   Sotheby's Sydney: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 [Lot 57] Important Paintings Estimate   * Sold For   * Provenance   Collection of the artist; thence by descent Collection of Pippin Drysdale, Western Australia Literature   Deborah Edwards, Bertram MacKennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p.37 (illus.)

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	Artist   Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal Title   Truth Medium   bronze Size   24.4 x 0 in. / 62 x 0 cm. Year   1894 - Found./Pub.   E. Gruet ed. Misc.   Inscribed, Stamped Sale Of   Sotheby's Melbourne: Tuesday, May 4, 2004 [Lot 136] Fine Australian Art Estimate   * Sold For   *

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	Artist   Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal Title   Head of a woman (Mary Anderson) Medium   terracotta Size   13.8 x 0 in. / 35 x 0 cm. Year   1888 - Edition   L/L Misc.   Inscribed Sale Of   Deutscher and Hackett: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 [Lot 22] Pro Estimate   * Sold For   *

Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, KCVO (12 June 1863 – 10 October 1931), usually known as Bertram Mackennal was an Australian sculptor.

Biography

Bertram Mackennal was born in Fitzroy a suburb of Melbourne to parents who were both of Scottish descent. His father, John Simpson Mackennal, who was also a sculptor, provided his early training which was followed by studies at the school of design at the Melbourne National Gallery which he attended from 1878 to 1882. Marshall Wood, the English sculptor, who visited Australia in 1880, strongly advised him to go abroad. He left for London in 1882 to study at the National Gallery Schools, and for a time shared a studio with Charles Douglas Richardson and Tom Roberts. In 1884 he visited Paris for further study and married a fellow student, Agnes Spooner. On returning to England he obtained a position at the Coalport china factory as a designer and modeller. In 1886 he won a competition for the sculptured reliefs on the front of Parliament House, Melbourne, and returned to Australia in 1887 to carry these out.

While in Australia he obtained other commissions, including the figure over the doorway of Mercantile Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne. He also met Sarah Bernhardt, who was on a professional visit to Australia, and strongly advised the young man to return to Paris, which he did in 1891. In 1893 he had his first success, when his full length figure "Circe", now at the National Gallery of Victoria, obtained a "mention" at the Salon and created a good deal of interest. It was exhibited later at the Royal Academy where it also aroused great interest, partly because of the prudery of the hanging committee which insisted that the base should be covered. Commissions began to flow in, among them being the figures "Oceana" and "Grief' for the Union Club, Sydney. Two Melbourne commissions brought him to Australia again in 1901, the memorial to Sir William John Clarke at the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, and the sculptures for the Springthorpe Memorial in Kew.

He returned to London, and among his works of this period were the fine pediment for the local government board office at Westminster, a Boer War memorial for Islington, and statues of Queen Victoria for Ballarat, Lahore, and Blackburn. In 1907 his marble group "The Earth and the Elements" was purchased for the National Gallery of British Art under the Chantry Bequest, and in 1908 his "Diana Wounded" was also bought for the nation. This dual success brought Mackennal into great prominence, and he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1909.

In the following year he designed the Coronation Medal for King George V and also won the important commission for the obverse design (the monarch's head) of the new coinage needed for the new reign from 1911. This is certainly his most enduring design. His initials, B.M., can be seen on the truncation of the King's neck on the obverse of all British coins of George V. His next important piece of work was the memorial to Gainsborough at Sudbury, which was followed by the memorial tomb of King Edward VII at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He also did statues of King Edward VII for London, Melbourne, Calcutta and Adelaide.

He was the first Australian artist to be knighted.^[3] He was created a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order in 1921, and was elected R.A. in 1922.

Among his later works were the nude male figure for the Eton War Memorial, the war memorial to the members of both houses of parliament in London, the figures of the soldier and the sailor for the cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, the bronze statue of King George V at Old Parliament House, Canberra, and the head of "Victory", presented to the Commonwealth by the artist, also at Canberra. He completed the Desert Mounted Corps memorial at the Suez Canal from the designs of Charles Web Gilbert a little while before his death. He died suddenly at his house, Watcombe Hall, near Torquay, Devon^[1] on 10 October 1931, and was survived by Lady Mackennal and a daughter.

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Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal: A Brief Biography

Deborah Edwards, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) was the most significant Australian sculptor of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Melbourne in 1863, the son of Scottish immigrant and architectural sculptor J. S. Mackennal, Bertram Mackennal studied at the National Gallery Schools in Melbourne (1878-1882) before he departed for Europe in 1882, seeking further training and greater opportunities for sculptural success.

Mackennal became an exceptional avant-garde artist in the 1890s. He was immersed in a radical new sculptural movement subsequently known as 'the New Sculpture' and was inspired by Symbolist, Art nouveau and new classicist tendencies. Living in Paris in the mid 1880s and again in the early 1890s, Mackennal became a commanding sculptural synthesiser, tempering the radical innovations, expressive surfaces, and sexualised subjects of Rodin with the style and sentiments governing more establishment conceptions. He was also strongly influenced by the progressive French interest in Florentine Renaissance traditions and its preoccupation with the eroticised body.

Based in London from the mid-1890s, Mackennal rose to sculptural prominence & creating the memorial tomb to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Windsor, Britain's national memorial to Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk, as well as sculptural projects for Britain's royalty and social elites, including Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India, and the Duke of Norfolk. Mackennal is renowned for the national memorial to Edward VII at Waterloo as well as works in Westminster Abbey, York Minster, Winchester Cathedral, the Palace of Westminster and St Paul's Cathedral, amongst others.

Mackennal was known as the creator of beautiful, empathetic portraits of many of the era's leading 'new women', including the actress Sarah Bernhardt and singer Nellie Melba. Similarly he established a reputation in both Paris and London as the creator of bold, sensual female nudes. His mythological and allegorical female figures, including Circe 1893, Truth 1894 and Salomé c 1895 for example, are archetypal New Sculptural works and attest to Mackennal's strength as an artist who refined upon nature yet retained a direct sense of the life model.

Mackennal returned to Australia only three times, yet he maintained close ties with this country and completed a significant number of public works for Australian sites - including the Martin Place cenotaph, the figures of Archbishop Kelly and Cardinal Moran at St Mary's Cathedral, and the Shakespeare memorial in Sydney, along with the monument to Edward VII, located in Adelaide, the monumental statue of Queen Victoria in Ballarat, the King Edward VII and Springthorpe memorials in Melbourne, and various statues of civic dignitaries in Brisbane and Perth. Mackennal's Springthorpe memorial is without question the most spectacular example of Art Nouveau and Symbolist inspired sculpture in this country.

Mackennal's status as an Australian 'cultural hero' is undeniable. His work directly influenced the growth and directions of sculpture in this country.

Images: Top: Abbey Altson Bertram Mackennal 1894 Art Gallery of New South Wales Accessioned 2004 Bottom:

Related Material

• A Monograph and fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal's sculpture available from the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Information about the exhibition

Selected works

• Five Foolish Virgins, relief, (exhibited 1886)
• Sculptured reliefs, Parliament House, Melbourne (installed 1887)
• Circe, bronze figure, National Gallery of Victoria (exhibited 1893)
• Louis Buvelot, bust, National Gallery of Victoria
• Sarah Bernhardt, bust (1893)
• For She Sitteth on a Seat in the High Places of the City (Rahab), location unknown, (exhibited 1895)
• Figure over doorway, Mercantile Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne
• Pediment, New Government Offices, Whitehall, Westminster, London (1898)
• Dame Nellie Melba, bust, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1899)
• Queen Victoria , seated bronze, the British Embassy gardens, Bangkok (1900)
• Queen Victoria, statues, Ballarat, Lahore and Blackburn (c1901)
• Oceana and Grief, Union Club, Sydney
• Springthorpe Memorial, sculptures, Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, (1901)
• Sir William John Clarke, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne (1901)
• Boer War Memorial, (Victory), entrance to Highbury Fields, Islington (1903)
• The Dancer, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1904)
• War (Bellona or Victory), Sculpture Garden, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (sculpted 1906)
• The Earth and the Elements (marble group), Tate Gallery (exhibited 1907)
• Sir William Howard Russell, bust, The Crypt, St Paul's Cathedral, London (1907)
• Olympic Games Medals, London, 1908
• Diana Wounded, bronze, Tate Gallery (purchased 1908)
• King George V coinage and medals (signed BM) and postage stamps (1910)
• Tomb for Edward VII (with Edward Lutyens), St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (commissioned 1910)
• National Memorial to Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk
• Apollo, Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire.
• King George V, marble portrait statue, formerly situated at the Flower Bazaar Police Station, Madras, now at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi (1916)
• King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue mounted on archway, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta
• King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne (unveiled 1920)
• King Edward VII, bronze statue (and associated figures), Adelaide (unveiled 1920)
• King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Waterloo Place London (1921)
• Eton War Memorial
• Members of Parliament War Memorial, London
• War Memorial, Corporation Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (1922)
• War Memorial, Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire, England
• Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun , Australia House, The Strand, London, (installed 1923)
• Cardinal Moran and Archbishop Kelly, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
• Shakespeare Memorial, Shakespeare Place, Sydney (1926)
• The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney (1929)
• Lord Curzon of Kedleston, monument, All Saints, Kedleston, Derbyshire (1931)
• Lord Curzon, statue, Carlton House Terrace, London
• Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Port Said (1931) (now at Mount Clarence, Albany, Western Australia)

See also

Art of Australia

References and external links

1. ^ ^{a b} "Mackennal, Sir Edgar Bertram (1863 - 1931)" (HTML). Australian Dictionary of Biography,. 2007. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100295b.htm. Retrieved on 2007-09-02. 
2. ^ "Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, K.C.V.O., R.A.,
3. 1863-1931" (HTML). victorianweb. 2007. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/mackennal/mackennalov.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-02
4.   ^ "MACKENNAL, SIR EDGAR BERTRAM 1863-1931" (HTML). Australian Art. 2007. http://www.australianart.com.au/sculptors.php?ID=7. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
5. This article incorporates text from the 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from Project Gutenberg of Australia, which is in the public domain in Australia and the United States of America.
6. Serle, Percival (1949). "Mackennal, Edgar Bertram". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogMc.html#mackennal1. 
7. Mackennals war sculptures in Australia
8. The Victoria Web: Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal
9. A&A art and architecture: Mackennal, Edgar Bertram

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Introduction

Bertram Mackennal by Abbey Altson. Art Gallery of New South Wales Accessioned 2004.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of a Scottish architectural sculptor. First studied under his father, then at Melbourne School of Art. Arrived London 1882, entered R.A. Schools, but soon left for Paris. First exhibited at R.A., 1886. 1889-92 in Australia, having won competition for decoration of Government House, Victoria, 1893. Circe received honourable mention at Paris Salon. Much influenced by French Academic manner, then by Rodin's later style.

Works include: Memorial Tomb for Edward VII, St. Georges' Chapel, Windsor (joint commission with Sir Edwin Lutyens as architect); National Memorial to Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk. Designed George V coinage.

A.R.A. 1909, K.C.V.O. 1921, R.A. 1922. [British Sculpture 1850-1914, p. 28.]

Bertram Mackennal by Abbey Altson. Art Gallery of New South Wales Accessioned 2004.

Biographical and Related Materials Materials

• Brief Biography (from the Art Gallery of New South Wales)
• Notice of a Major Exhibition (2007)

Works

• Grief
• Circe
• Edward VII
• "For she sitteth on a seat in the high places of the city"
• Maquette for Queen Victoria Jubilee Statue
• Nude
• Salome
• Truth
• Lady Diana Duff Cooper
• Madonna
• Motherhood
• The Dancer
• Sarah Bernhardt

References

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Pl. 174.

British Sculpture 1850-1914. A loan exhibition of sculpture and medals sponsored by The Victorian Society. London: Fine Art Society, 1968.

Edwards, Deborah. Bertram Mackennal. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. This catalogue raisonné, which contains 150 color plates and an equal number of black-and-white illustrations, also comes with a CD-ROM. [Additional information, including how to order it.]

Important Arts and Crafts Furniture and Works of Art, English, Foreign and European Bronzes I 830- I 930. Sale catalogue of 18 May 1975. London: Sotheby's Belgravia, 1975.

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A Monograph and fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal's sculpture (2007)

Deborah Edwards, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Bertram Mackennal retrospective exhibition is accompanied by the first comprehensive monograph published on this artist. At 216 pages and produced in hard-cover version only, this book is lavishly illustrated with over 150 colour photographs featuring all of Mackennal's major sculptures as well as substantial archival photography. The publication also includes an attached, fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of Mackennal's sculptures, on CD-ROM.

This monograph features essays by leading sculpture scholars in Britain, America, Australia and New Zealand, including eminent British historian Benedict Read and American scholar David Getsy, and Australians Noel Hutchison, Juliette Peers, and curator Deborah Edwards. It presents the fruits of comprehensive research on the life and art of Bertram Mackennal in Paris, London and Australia, as both the creator of exceptional portraits and sculptural nudes, and as a prominent civic sculptor. Writers address major works located in the Palace of Westminster, Windsor Castle, Lord Curzon's Kedleston Hall, Derby, St Paul's Cathedral, Arundel Castle, and a range of major Australian and British art institutions. Subjects discussed range from Mackennal's significance in the context of European traditions; the artist's close connections with the most important theatrical personalities of the age; his preoccupation with Symbolism and the femme fatale; Mackennal's relationships with Australian sculptors, and his prominence as a designer of medals, coins and stamps.

The exhibition and publication have been conceived as two related, yet independent and equally important ventures, which will together encompass the life and career of an artist who eminent British sculpture historian Benedict Read has called 'one of the great sculptors of the period'. It is a must for all those interested in Australian art, in sculpture and in the traditions of the figurative nude.

Information about the monograph:

Title: Bertram Mackennal
Author: Deborah Edwards
Publication Category: Sculpture, Victorian Art, Australian Art
Binding: hardback
Illustrations: 150 colour images + 130 b&w
Size: 305 x 250mm portrait, 216 pages + CD-ROM: Catalogue Raisonné
ISBN: 1741740118
ISBN 13: 9781741740110
Price: $80.00
Available August 2007

To order contact:

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Related Material

• A Biography of Mackennal (from the Art Gallery of New South Wales)
• Information about the exhibition

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The Art of Sculpture in Victorian Britain

Works

It used to be assumed that sculpture was the original art of prehistoric man and that drawing and painting were much later acquisitions. This view was based on the erroneous idea that sculpture involved a much simpler process of reproduction than drawing — the idea that modelling or carving in the round was a process of direct imitiation, whereas drawing or painting required the translation of three-dimensional experience into two-dimensional abstraction. Nothing could be farther from the psychological facts. Volume, the notion of three-dimensional mass, is not given by direct visual perception. We see objects from several points of view and retain one particular and signicant aspect of a memory image. . . . It therefore requires an imaginative or at least a mental effort to pass beyond the memory image and construct a three-dimensional inage. We are aided in this task by other sensations or by the memory of such sensations — sensations of weight or touch — but this fact only serves to emphasize the complicated mental procedure involved in the conception and the representation of the solidity of a solid object. — Sir Herbert Read, The Art of Sculpture, p. 26-27

General

• Pre-Raphaelitism in Victorian Sculpture
• The New Sculpture and the Old
• Advocacy of the New Sculpture in Contemporary Criticism
• Realism and the New Sculpture
• A Revolution in the Decorative Function of Sculpture
• The Work of Art within the Work of Art
• Influence of French Sculpture
• Selected Bibliography
• Women Sculptors
• Peter Pan and Eros: Public and Private Sculpture in Britain, 1880-1940
• Reviews of Books about Victorian Sculpture

Theme and Subject

• Allegorical Subjects
• Victorian Sculpture: A List of Subjects
• Subject in the New Sculpture

Genres

• Animals
• Monumental Sculpture
• Fountains
• Architectural Sculpture
• Cast iron decorative work
• Nude and Other Figurative Sculpture
  • The Nude in the Visual Arts (sitemap)
  • Male Nudes
  • Standing Female Nudes
  • Female Nudes: Sitting, Crouching, Kneeling, or Reclining
• Portrait Sculpture
  • A List of Subjects
  • Queen Victoria
  • John Ruskin
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

Individual Sculptors born before 1850

• Henry Hugh Armstead
• E. H. Baily, R.A., 1788-1867
• John Bell
• Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A., 1832-1893
• Sir Joseph Edward Boehm , R.A., 1834-1890
• Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. 1847-1922
• William Brodie, RSA, 1815-1881
• Sir Francis Chantrey, R. A., 1781-1841
• John Henry Cole, R.A., 1818-1874
• Walter Crane, 1845-1915
• Aime-Jules Dalou, 1838-1902
• Susan Durant, d. 1873
• Joseph Durham , 1814-1877
• Thomas Fitzpatrick
• John Flaxman, 1755-1826
• Sir John Henry Foley, R. A., 1818-1874
• John Gibson RA, 1790-l866
• Count Victor Gleichen, 1833-1891
• Adrian Jones, 1845-1938
• Samuel Joseph, 1791-1850
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA, 1802-1873
• John Lawlor
• George Anderson Lawson
• Frederic Lord Leighton, P. R. A., 1830-1896
• John Graham Lough, 1798-1876
• Richard Cockle Lucas, 1800-1883
• Patrick MacDowell
• William Calder Marshall
• Baron Carlo (Charles) Marochetti, 1805-67
• Alexander Munro, 1825-1871
• Matthew Noble
• Edward James Physick, 1820-1906
• George Blackall Simonds, 1843-1929
• Benjamin Spence, c.1822-1866
• John Steell, 1804-91
• Alfred Stevens, 1817-1876
• William Theed, Jr.
• John Thomas, 1813-1862
• Thomas Thornycroft, 1815-1885
• Mary Thornycroft, 1814-1895
• Baron H.-J.-F. de Triqueti, 1803-1874
• John Lucas Tupper, 1824?-1879)
• Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson
• George Frederick Watts, R.A., 1817-1904
• Henry Weekes
• Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior, RA (1775-1856
• James Sherwood Westmacott, 1823-1900
• Francis John Williamson, 1833-1920
• John Warrington Wood, 1839-1886
• William Frederick Woodington, 1806-1893
• Thomas Woolner
• Richard James Wyatt, 1795-1850

Individual Sculptors born after 1850

• Harry Bates, A. R. A., 1850-1899
• Gilbert Bayes, , 1872-1953)
• Edith A. Bell, fl. 1890-1910
• Edward G. Bramwell
• Benjamin Creswick, 1853-1946
• Sir William Reid Dick, R. A., 1878-1961
• Conrad Dressler, 1856-1940
• Alfred Drury, R. A., 1856-1944
• Evelyn de Morgan (1850-1919)
• Alexander Fisher
• Edward Onslow Ford, R. A., 1852-1901
• Sir George Frampton, R. A., P. R. B. S., 1860-1928
• John Henry Monsell Furse, 1860-1950
• James Gamble
• Sir Alfred Gilbert, R. A., 1854-1934
• Margaret Giles, 1868-1949
• Lady Feodora Gleichen, 1861-1922
• Adèle Hay (fl. 1890-1910)
• Charles Jagger, 1885-1934
• William Goscombe John, 1860-1952
• Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, 1878-1947
• Helen Langley, fl. 1890s
• Thomas Stirling Lee, 1857-1916
• Ruby Levick, fl. 1890s
• Robert Cockle Lucas, 1800-83
• Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, 1860-1925
• James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, 1856-1938
• Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, K.C.V.O., R. A., 1863-1931
• Eleanor Mercer (fl. 1890-1910)
• Henry Alfred Pegram, 1862-1937
• Frederick W. Pomeroy, R. A., 1856-1924
• William Reynolds-Stephens
• E, M. Rope, fl. 1890s
• William Birnie Rhind, RSA, 1873-1933
• Godfrey Sykes
• Frederick Thomas
• Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft , R. A., 1850-1825)
• George Tinworth, 1843-1913
• Albert Toft, 1862-1949
• Rueben Townroe
• John Tweed, 1869-1933
• L. Gwendolyn Williams, ?-1955
• Arthur George Walker, R.A., 1861-1936
• Sir Charles Wheeler, 1892-1974
• Francis Derwent Wood, R.A., 1871-1926

Sculpture from other countries

• France
• The United States of America

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Artist: Sir Bertram Mackennal ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (32)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Sir Bertram Mackennal.

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William Strang, Bertram and Bimi - Illustrations to Life"s Handicap, 19th - 20th century
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Conversation Piece Jan Ekels the Younger (Dutch, 1759-1793)Oil on canvas; 25 7/8 x 23 1/2
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William Strang, Bertram and the Bimi, plate 7 in the book, A Series of thirty Etchings ? illustrating Subjects from the Writings of Rudyard Kipling (London: Macmillan, 1901), 1901
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Jules Dupr?, French, 1811-1889 Watering Place Oil on canvas 38.1 x 51.8 cm (15 x
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Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, French, 1803-1860 Young Beggars Oil on canvas 27 x 33.3 cm (10
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Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 Meadow with Poplars about 1875 Oil on canvas 54.6 x 65.4
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Pierre C?cile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824-1898 Homer: Epic Poetry (reduction of a mural in
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, French, 1796-1875 Young Woman Weaving a Wreath of Flowers about 1866-70
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Bertram G. Bruestle - Connecticut Landscape n.d. oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, French, 1796-1875 Farmyard at Sin, near Douai, with Children at Play
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William Baxter Palmer Closson, American, 1848-1926 Mrs. David P. Kimball (Clara Bertram) about 1890 Pastel
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Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910 Twilight at Leeds, New York 1876 Oil on canvas mounted on
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Anonymous , The Death of the Virgin, late 15th century
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Louis Gueymard (1822-1880) as Robert le Diable, 1857 Jean-D?sir?-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 58
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Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910 Girls on Cliff 1881 Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite 32.5
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Covered vase (meiping) vase; A) body, b) lid; Meiping Chinese Yuan dynasty, Yuan dynasty, mid-14th
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Incense burner on three feet Chinese Yuan dynasty, Yuan dynasty, late 13th?early 14th century China
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Johannes Bosboom, Dutch, 1817-1891 Interior of a Church Oil on canvas 79.7 x 66.4 cm
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 The Rosebud 1839 Oil on canvas 72.39 x
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Head of a Woman Mary B. Claflin 1872 Oil on
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Ammi Phillips, American, 1788-1865 Reverend Jonas Coe about 1820 Oil on canvas 122.17 x 97.15
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Johan Frederik Thaulow, Norwegian, 1847-1906 Snow-covered Cottages 1891 Pastel on canvas 50.2 x 61 cm
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Unidentified artist, Dutch, second quarter 17th century Portrait of a Girl in Frisian Costume Holding
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775-1851 Dover Castle from the Sea 1822 Watercolor on paper
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Antoine Louis Barye, French, 1795-1875 Stag and Doe Watercolor on paper, mounted down Sheet: 21
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Jean Fran?ois Raffa?lli, French, 1850-1924 St.-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris about 1897 Oil on panel 21.6 x 25.4
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Vase (meiping) vase; Meiping Chinese Yuan dynasty, Yuan dynasty, 14th century China Jingdezhen porcelain, Qingbaware
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Louis Eug?ne Boudin, French, 1824-1898 Washerwomen near a Bridge 1882 Oil on panel 32 x
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Marked by Edward Feline, free 1721 Tankard drinking vessel London, England England, (London), 1723-24 Silver
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Alan Goldfarb, Born in 1959 Claw beaker: "That"s a spicy Meatball" United States, Vermont, (Burlington),
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Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, French, 1852-1929 Woman in Breton Costume Seated in a Meadow (study
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Unidentified artist, British, fourth quarter, 18th century Two Children in a Landscape Oil on canvas

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Queensland Art Gallery: Transformations: A Century of Sculpture
The exhibition opens with two works by Auguste Rodin, a great influence on 20th century sculpture. Smaller bronzes from late 19th/early 20th century explore the figure as an allegory and are presented with reference to t...

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Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, KCVO (12 June 1863 – 10 October 1931), usually known as Bertram Mackennal was an Australian sculptor.

Bertram Mackennal was born in Fitzroy a suburb of Melbourne to parents who were both of Scottish descent. His father, John Simpson Mackennal, who was also a sculptor, provided his early training which was followed by studies at the school of design at the Melbourne National Gallery which he attended from 1878 to 1882. Marshall Wood, the English sculptor, who visited Australia in 1880, strongly advised him to go abroad. He left for London in 1882 to study at the National Gallery Schools, and for a time shared a studio with Charles Douglas Richardson and Tom Roberts. In 1884 he visited Paris for further study and married a fellow student, Agnes Spooner. On returning to England he obtained a position at the Coalport china factory as a designer and modeller. In 1886 he won a competition for the sculptured reliefs on the front of Parliament House, Melbourne, and returned to Australia in 1887 to carry these out.

While in Australia he obtained other commissions, including the figure over the doorway of Mercantile Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne. He also met Sarah Bernhardt, who was on a professional visit to Australia, and strongly advised the young man to return to Paris, which he did in 1891. In 1893 he had his first success, when his full length figure "Circe", now at the National Gallery of Victoria, obtained a "mention" at the Salon and created a good deal of interest. It was exhibited later at the Royal Academy where it also aroused great interest, partly because of the prudery of the hanging committee which insisted that the base should be covered. Commissions began to flow in, among them being the figures "Oceana" and "Grief' for the Union Club, Sydney. Two Melbourne commissions brought him to Australia again in 1901, the memorial to Sir William John Clarke at the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, and the sculptures for the Springthorpe Memorial in Kew.

He returned to London, and among his works of this period were the fine pediment for the local government board office at Westminster, a Boer War memorial for Islington, and statues of Queen Victoria for Ballarat, Lahore, and Blackburn. In 1907 his marble group "The Earth and the Elements" was purchased for the National Gallery of British Art under the Chantry Bequest, and in 1908 his "Diana Wounded" was also bought for the nation. This dual success brought Mackennal into great prominence, and he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1909.

In the following year he designed the Coronation Medal for

King George V

and also won the important commission for the obverse design (the monarch's head) of the new coinage needed for the new reign from 1911. This is certainly his most enduring design. His initials, B.M., can be seen on the truncation of the King's neck on the obverse of all British coins of George V. His next important piece of work was the memorial to Gainsborough at Sudbury, which was followed by the memorial tomb of 

King Edward VII

at

The Queen's Free Chapel of the College of St. George, Windsor Castle

St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He also did statues of King Edward VII for London, Melbourne, Calcutta and Adelaide.

He was the first Australian artist to be knighted. He was created a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order in 1921, and was elected R.A. in 1922.

Among his later works were the nude male figure for

theEton War Memorial, the war memorial to the members of both houses of parliament in London, the figures of the soldier and the sailor for the cenotaph in

Martin Place, Sydney, the bronze statue of King George V at

Old Parliament House, Canberra, and the head of "Victory", presented to the Commonwealth by the artist, also at Canberra. He completed the

Desert Mounted Corps memorial at the

Suez Canal, as seen from Earth orbit Suez Canal from the designs of Charles Web Gilbert a little while before his death. He died suddenly at his house, Watcombe Hall, near Torquay, Devon on 10 October 1931, and was survived by Lady

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Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal RA (1863-1931)

The sculptor Bertram Mackennal was born in Melbourne, Australia. He learned art from his father, then at the Melbourne National Gallery School (where Rupert Bunny was a fellow student), and came to England to study the antique at the British Museum in 1883. The following year he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but the teaching did not prove agreeable to him, and he soon left, to go to Paris. There, still aged only 19, he set up his own studio, while continuing his studies with visits to the workshops of a variety of eminent sculptors.

Back in England Mackennal became head of the art department of the Coalport Potteries in Shropshire. However, in 1887 he won a competition to provide relief carvings for the Victoria State houses of Parliament, and he spent two years back in Australia working on this commission. After rather mixed success, he achieved fame with his statue Circe in 1893. By this time he was back in London, and it was there that he settled, becoming one of the more important sculptors of his time.

Tragedy enveloping Comedy

The illustration shows a typical work by Mackennal. He specialised in rather ideal figures, often female nudes, with art nouveau-style faces, and often on complex plinths with symbolic decor. As well, he made various portrait sculptures.

An example of Mackennal's more formal portrait statues is the Edward VII in Waterloo Place, London. An excellent Boer War Memorial is in Islington. Apparently he also designed the coins of that era. He also made sculpture for Australia House (see the walk on the Strand).

Here is a detailed account of Mackennal's war sculptures in Australia.

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