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Lot 41
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An English marble group of two children sleeping, by Joseph Gott (1786-1860) circa 1825-30

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • length 22 1/4 in.
two children reclining on a rock, the boy resting is head on the chest of the girl, signed on the front left edge: J. GOTT F.T.

Catalogue Note

RELATED LITERATURE

R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Cambridge, Massacusetts, 1954, pp. 176-178

Joseph Gott Sculptor, (exh.cat.), Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Leeds and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1972.

While this specific sculpture does not appear to be recorded in Gott's archives, it could well be the "The Babes in the Wood" noted (see illustration in the Witt Library photograph collections) as coming from a private collection. 

Joseph Gott was apprenticed to John Flaxman in London between 1798 and 1802 and entered the Royal Academy schools in 1805. By 1822 he was living in Rome on a pension from his patron Sir Thomas Lawrence and apart from short periods of work in Leeds, he remained in Rome until his death. However, Gott made frequent visits to England to obtain commissions from both the aristocracy and the industrial magnates of the North. His work includes a variety of shepherds, animals - especially dogs - and many portrait busts and medallions, typically in Roman costume.  He was also well-known for his cherubic children. Many of Gott's works remain in private hands.