Lot 262: After Henry Richard Hope Pinker (1849-1927): A collection of plaster portrait busts and curiosities from the artist's studio

including four portrait busts raised on square socles, an oval portrait plaque of a boy, a wooden mounted rectangular portrait plaque of a woman, a study of a child's hand and wrist, and another of a child's foot, a circular portrait plaque inscribed M. Hilda Knobel Harman 1900 and sundry work probably not by the artist including a wooden elephant and a glazed earthenware wolf,
The largest: 36cm high (Quantity)

Henry Hope Pinker was a highly regarded Victorian portrait sculptor. Three examples are held by The National Portrait Gallery, two of which are plaster examples. Perhaps Hope Pinker's best known work is of Charles Darwin, sculpted in Caen stone and on display at The Oxford University of Natural History. Other well known public commissions include that of W.E Forster in the Eastern Victoria Embankment Gardens.