LAURENCE GAHAGAN (1756-1817) Portrait Bust of Lord Nelson...
LAURENCE GAHAGAN (1756-1817)
Portrait Bust of Lord Nelson
White statuary marble, 28cm high
Signed
Listed in Strickland as a sculptor, L. Geoghegan of Anglesea Street in Dublin was given a premium of four pounds by the Dublin Society in 1756 for “a piece of sculpture”. Strickland surmised that this was probably the marble statuette of Rubens, which at that time belonged to W.T. Kirkpatrick of Donacomper, Celbridge and which is signed ‘L. Geoghegan 1756’. He altered his name to Gahagan on reaching London. In 1777 he received a premium of thirty guineas from the Society of Arts for a cast of a figure and exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1798 busts of Admiral Sir Thomas Paisley and Sir Horatio Nelson. He continued to exhibit at the RA until 1817.
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LAURENCE GAHAGAN (1756-1817)
Portrait Bust of Lord Nelson
White statuary marble, 28cm high
Signed
Listed in Strickland as a sculptor, L. Geoghegan of Anglesea Street in Dublin was given a premium of four pounds by the Dublin Society in 1756 for “a piece of sculpture”. Strickland surmised that this was probably the marble statuette of Rubens, which at that time belonged to W.T. Kirkpatrick of Donacomper, Celbridge and which is signed ‘L. Geoghegan 1756’. He altered his name to Gahagan on reaching London. In 1777 he received a premium of thirty guineas from the Society of Arts for a cast of a figure and exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1798 busts of Admiral Sir Thomas Paisley and Sir Horatio Nelson. He continued to exhibit at the RA until 1817.
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