71.0 x 58.0 x 26.0 cm (whole object).
The socle is unlikely to be original unless this bust is a copy - it appears that some of the busts in the Royal Collection had new turned socles to replace the originals
Handel's most important patron was George III, who placed this
bust of his favourite composer in a position of honour in Buckingham House, on
top of the organ in Queen Charlotte’s Breakfast Room.
Provenance:
Possibly acquired by George III ????
Photograph Courtesey the Royal Collection website.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/27/collection/11909/george-frederick-handel
More recent photographs of The Grimsthorpe Castle Terracotta Bust of Handel from their website
This was the master from which the bust at the Handel Haus
Museum in Halle Germany was cast from (see above). It was made for Handel-Haus
in 1997 by the Gipsformerei (plaster workshop) of the Stiftung Preutgischer
Kulturbesitz in Berlin, and that plaster was cast after a bust in their
collection bearing the signature of the German sculptor, Aurelio (Mark
Aurelius) Micheli (1834-1908, fl 1860-70), who specialised in portraits of
notable Germans, many of them composers, and whose works appear to have been
issued in multiples produced by the plaster workshop of the Micheli Brothers in
Berlin.
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