Thomas Brock

Lot Description Sir Thomas Brock, A.R.A. (1847-1922) Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A. signed and dated 'T. Brock/Scul. 1881' bronze with a dark brown patina, on a rouge marble plinth 6½ in. (16.8 cm.) excluding the plinth Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to itsterms. View ConditionReport Literature Joanna Barnes Fine Arts ed., exhibition catalogue, Leighton andhis sculptural legacy: British sculpture 1875-1930, 1996, p. 34,no. 7 (another cast). View Lot Notes › Executed as a token of his esteem for Leighton, Brock'sfull-size plaster bust of the artist, then President of the RoyalAcademy, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881 (no. 1559). Tenyears later, on the occasion of his own election to full membershipof the Academy, Brock modelled a second portrait bust of Leighton,more romantic in style and subsequently exhibited in 1893 (no.1717). A close association between Brock and Leighton had existedsince 1877, when Leighton's celebrated work, An Athlete wrestlingwith a Python, was modelled and cast in bronze in Brock's studio.Later, Brock would be responsible for the magnificent monument toLeighton in St. Paul's Cathedral (1897-1902).

90cm high , raised on a mahogany stained canted rectangular panelled pedestal on moulded base, 104cm high , dark brown patination, drew & co founders , and inscribed t. brock. sc. 1876 the semi-naked turban-clad man leaning against a tree stump, his right foot resting on a basket, holding a pipe in his left hand, a serpent entwined baton in his right hand, on oval naturalistic base, signed