Lot 139: HENRY WEEKES BRITISH, 1807-1877

PROPERTY REMOVED FROM HEADFORT HOUSE, IRELAND

A MARBLE BUST OF A YOUNG MAN

measurements note
bust: 74cm., 29 1/8 in. column: 122.5cm., 48¼in.

mounted on a scagliola column (2)

signed and dated: H.Weekes ARA Sc.1856

NOTE

At the age of twenty, Henry Weekes became an assistant to Sir Francis Chantrey and assumed responsibility for the latter's studio after 1841. Consequently, Weekes' style is heavily influenced by Chantrey, whose numerous portrait busts, al antica, are archetypal of the early Victorian period. The present handsome bust of a young man epitomises Weekes' style. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1828 to 1877, showing over eighty portrait busts, although the identity of the present bust cannot be confirmed.