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This bust of Lever illustrates Ford’s ability to capture the characteristics of the sitter in lively manner typical of the New Sculpture movement. There is a bronze version of this piece in the Port Sunlight Museum. Busts of Lever were also made by Francis Derwent Wood and William Goscombe John. The Lady Lever Art Gallery also includes portraits of Lever by the painters Samuel Luke Fildes (1843 - 1927), George Hall Neale (1863 - 1940) and Philip Alexius De Laszlo (1869 - 1937).
Ford made a bust of Lever’s wife in the same year as a pair to this piece.
Specifications
- Accession number
- LL 51
- Collection type
- Sculpture
- Artist
- Edward Onslow Ford
- Date made
- 1900
- Materials
- Marble
- Measurements
- Object/sculpture: 73 cm
- Credit line
- Commissioned by William Hesketh Lever in 1900
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- On display: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Room 10, Entrance to Lever the Collector Gallery
- Inscription
- Signature and Date, English, Back; Right Side of Supporting Column: E. Onslow Ford / 1900
- Publications
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