The centrepiece of the Garden Hall is a sculpture of the Dying Gladiator acquired by the 5th Earl of Carlisle in Rome in 1768. (this info needs confirmation).
It would seem odd when casts were available in England - but either he was unaware or wanted a first generation cast.
Matthew Brettingham exported various casts of Antiquities including the Dying Gladiator from Rome in 1756. for Lennox, the Duke of Richmond,
The Matthew Brettingham Cast of the Dying Gladiator (records at Goodwood House).
The Matthew Brettingham Cast of the Dying Gladiator.
Goodwood Archives, Box 36/20. Brettingham's receipt, dated 13 Nov. 1756, is for the following casts: Petus and Arria , £30; Dying Gladiator , £20; Meleager , £20; Apollo Belvedere , £20; Flora , £20; St Susanna , £18; Callipygian Venus, £12; Apollino , £8; Camillus from Wilton survive, but only for smaller objects.
This is most likely the Dying Gladiator in Charles Lennox, the Duke of Richmond's Gallery at Richmond House, Whitehall.
The Gallery was created in 1758 and the collection opened for the use of students of painting, sculpture and engravings, with instruction provided and silver medals offered for designs and bas-reliefs. The Gallery was destroyed by fire in 1791 but the contents were saved.
Presumably the Duke of Richmond's cast of the Dying Gladiator is that at the Royal Academy at Somerset House.
The Antique School at Old Somerset House, 1779.
Edward Francis Burney (1760 - 1848).
The Royal Academy occupied several London premises before moving to their current premises at Burlington House in 1868.
Teaching originally took place at premises in Pall Mall, 1768 then in 1771 at Old Somerset House on the Strand from before the Academy as a whole was given apartments in New Somerset House and later in the National Gallery building at Trafalgar Square.
According to an inscription on the back
of the sheet, this drawing shows students at work in Old Somerset House,
crammed with copies of statues like the Apollo Belvedere (centre left). In the
right-hand corner of the room is Leonardo da Vinci's famous cartoon for 'The
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne' (also known as 'The Burlington House
Cartoon', c.1499-1500; National Gallery). However, as Old Somerset House was
being demolished from 1776 onwards, it is possible that this scene in fact
shows the RA Schools operating from a different building altogether, another
part of the Somerset House complex or it may have been drawn from memory. By
1779, Academy was getting ready to move into its apartments in New Somerset
House.
This drawing below is one of the pair by Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848) in the RA Collection which together provide a glimpse of daily life at the Royal Academy during the 18th century.
Both portray students of the RA
Schools drawing casts of Classical and Renaissance sculptures in the 'Antique
School'. Skilful draughtsmanship was essential for aspiring artists at this
time and students at the Academy spent up to three years drawing casts before
they progressed to life drawing.
Statue of the Dying Gladiator by Peter Scheemakers, circa 1743.
In part of the landscape garden of 1733 to 1740 created by William Kent at Rousham
House, Oxfordshire, built for General James Dormer.
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The Dying Gladiator.
Bronze.
Iford Manor, Somerset.
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