Joseph Edgar Boehm

M. Stocker, Royalist and Realist: The Life and Work of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, London and New York, 1988, pp. 307-8

Overall the condition of the bronze is excellent with some wear to the patina consistent with age. There is some minor wear to the base and minor losses to the paper around the base.
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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm R.A. was one of the most prominent sculptors in late nineteenth-century Britain. He enjoyed the patronage of Queen Victoria and was made Sculptor-in-Ordinary in 1880. Although Boehm is best known today for his portrait busts, he was also an important animalier sculptor. Cremorne, modelled in 1883, was praised by contemporary critics for the witty contrast between the elegant, classicising horse and, in the words of one critic, 'the rigidity of the conceited old groom who walks beside.' This attractive bronze group was cast by the Compagnie des Bronzes in Brussels, probably at the suggestion of the patron, Sir John Saville Lumley, who was British envoy to Brussels at the time.