Described as a Coade Venus with Messrs Jamb. London.
Recently sold.
Dimensions - Height 179cm (70½in), Width 88cm (34²¹⁄₃₂in), Depth 47cm (18½in).
The square plinth stamped 'COADE & SEALY/ LAMBETH/ 1802.'
There was another version of this statue in the car park at the Old Bull and Bush public house, North End Way, Hampstead dated 1803.
Alison Kelly reports that it was complete until the 1950's.
Requests to the brewery to move her or sell her were ignored and she was inevitably smashed.
See the early 20th Century photographs below.
The break on her left arm (proper) suggests that this is the original statue from the Old Bull and Bush at Hampstead.
See the photograph below from Mrs Coade's Stone by Alison Kelly published in 1990.
In 1765 City vintner Philip Rowden bought land here and built a mansion on the highest point. In 1796 it was purchased by Thomas Hercey Barritt who added pavilions at each end of the house, plus a barn, brew-house and dairy near the horse pond.
He also built the boundary wall with elegant
ironwork, and a monumental gateway and the house became known as Garbrand Hall.
The Waterwheel in the grounds of Bourne Hall originally
pumped water to greenhouses. The wheel is framed in a Flint arch with a Coade stone keystone.
The Venus and Baccus were at one time placed either side of the waterwheel by Bourne Hall Lake.
By the 1869 Bourne Hall, then called Garbrand Hall was in the ownership of the George Torr and his wife.
In the mid to latter years of the 19th
century Elizabeth Torr worked with her team of gardeners to produce the garden.
It was renamed Bourne Hall in the 1926 and sadly demolished in 1962.
For a fairly detailed history of Garbrand / Bourne Hall see
https://www.epsomewellhistory.org.uk/historyofbournehalli
https://www.epsomewellhistory.org.uk/thehistoryofbournehallii
https://www.epsomewellhistory.org.uk/thehistoryofbournehalliii
Height: 180cm. Width: 60cm. Depth: 60cm.
Museum number: HR3
On display in the Soane Museum Picture Room Recess.
This plaster figure was placed in the Picture Room Recess on
the completion of the Picture Room in 1824 - where it forms the centrepiece of
the theatrical mise en scène created by the opening of the south planes of the
Picture Room. It was probably the preparatory model for the marble version
(Exhib. RA 1824, No. 1009: A Nymph, A Statue in marble. R. Westmacott R.A.)
which was at Castle Howard in Yorkshire until its destruction in a fire in
November 1940.
The Coade factory in Lambeth produced examples of what they
called "Westmacott's Nymph" from 1831, in Coade Stone, possibly to a
slightly reduced scale. An example was sold by Christie's in 1999 and again
through Chiswick Auctions on 22nd Nov 2023 (Lot 25 in their Fine Sculpture and
Statuary, Selected Interiors and Works of Art sale).
Literature
M. Busco, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sculptor, CUP, 1994
There was a version of this statue in what became the car park at the Old Bull and Bush public house, North End Way, Hampstead.
Alison Kelly states that the statue was dated 1803.
Alison Kelly reports that it was complete until the 1950's. Requests to the brewery to move her or sell her were ignored and she was inevitably smashed.
From the break on her left arm I would say that this is the statue recently with Jamb.
Image below from the invaluable Mrs Coade's Stone by Alson Kelly, pub. 1990.
Is this the Jamb statue??
The break on her left arm proper would suggest so.
https://alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/down-at-the-old-bull-and-bush/
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