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HOLME CARDWELL (MANCHESTER, 1813-1895)
Venus
signed and dated 'HOLME CARDWELL / OF MANCHESTER / ScuLpt. ROME 1846' (on the reverse), and on a circular socle
marble
24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.) high
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Please note the correct dimensions of the present lot are 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.) high.
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Holme Cardwell was born in Manchester, before moving to London and attending the Royal Academy School in 1834. He was admitted to the Royal Academy following graduation and exhibited several portrait busts between 1837 and 1840. Cardwell eventually moved to Rome where he lived off and on for the rest of his life studying and continuing to produce busts and sculptures in the neoclassical style.

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